Neuroligin 1 modulates striatal glutamatergic neurotransmission in a pathway and NMDAR subunit-specific manner

Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Espinosa, Felipe ^a   Xuan, Zhong ^a   Liu, Shunan ^a   Powell, Craig M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; GluN2A; GluN2B; Medium spiny neuron (MSN); mEPSC; Neuroligin 1; NMDA; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN 1;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BASAL GANGLION; BIOPHYSICS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GENOTYPE; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MEDIUM SPINY NEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 84948945935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16633563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2015.00011     Document Type: Article

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