Recruitment order and dendritic morphology of rat phrenic motoneurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 366, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-243

  Torikai, Hidehisa ^a   Hayashi, Fumiaki ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^a   Chiba, Tanemichi ^a   Fukuda, Yasuichiro ^a   Moriya, Hideshige ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

diaphragm; intracellular labeling; Neurobiotin; path distance analysis; respiration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MOTONEURON; NERVE MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CATS; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; PHRENIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030028229     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960304)366:2<231::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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