A new neuromodulatory action of taurine: Long-lasting increase of synaptic potentials

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 403, Issue , 1996, Pages 463-471

  Galarreta, Mario ^a   Bustamante, Julián ^b   Del Río, Rafael Martín ^a   Solís, José M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAURINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN SLICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029972266     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0182-8_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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