Article
Functional reconstitution of glycinergic synapses incorporating defined glycine receptor subunit combinations.
Neuropharmacology - 1 Feb 2015
Zhang Yan, Dixon Christine L, Keramidas Angelo, Lynch Joseph W
Abstract excerpt
Glycine receptor (GlyR) chloride channels mediate fast inhibitory neurotransmission in the spinal cord and brainstem. Four GlyR subunits (α1-3, β) have been identified in humans, and their differential anatomical distributions underlie a diversity of synaptic isoforms with unique physiological and pharmacological properties. To improve our understanding of these properties, we induced the formation of recombinant...
Topics
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Glycine
- Hexachlorocyclohexane
- Humans
- Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials
- Insecticides
- Mutation
- Neurons
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
