Immature responses to GABA in fragile X neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Telias, Michael ^a,b,d   Segal, Menahem ^c  

^a LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragile X syndrome; GABA; Human embryonic stem cells; In vitro neural differentiation; Neural development

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84969242541     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2016.00121     Document Type: Article

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