GABAA receptor activity shapes the formation of inhibitory synapses between developing medium spiny neurons

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue AUGUST, 2015, Pages

  Arama, Jessica ^a   Abitbol, Karine ^a,c   Goffin, Darren ^a,d   Fuchs, Celine ^a   Sihra, Talvinder S ^b   Thomson, Alex M ^a   Jovanovic, Jasmina N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNOMIQUE FONCTIONNELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GABAA receptor depolarization; GABAA receptors; GABAergic synapses; Hyperpolarizing shift; Striatal medium spiny neuron

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CALCIUM; GEPHYRIN; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM IMAGING; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMAGING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIUM SPINY NEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

EID: 84940191576     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00290     Document Type: Article

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