Increased expression of the Drosophila vesicular glutamate transporter leads to excess glutamate release and a compensatory decrease in quantal content

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 46, 2004, Pages 10466-10474

  Daniels, Richard W ^a   Collins, Catherine A ^a   Gelfand, Maria V ^a   Dant, Jaime ^a   Brooks, Elizabeth S ^b   Krantz, David E ^b   DiAntonio, Aaron ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Glutamate; Quantal size; Synaptic transmission; Synaptic vesicle; Vesicular glutamate transporter

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; HOMEOSTASIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMEOSTASIS; LARVA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 9244245770     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3001-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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