Potentiation of GABA-induced C1- current by a series of n-alcohols disappears at a cutoff point of a longer-chain n-alcohol in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-130

  Nakahiro, Masanobu ^a   Arakawa, Osamu ^b   Nishimura, Tsuyoshi ^c   Narahashi, Toshio ^d  

^a National Hospital Shou rai soh   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Anesthesia; Cutoff; GABAa receptor; Patch clamp; aminobutyric acid (GABA)

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHLORIDE CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION;

ALCOHOLS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 0030068205     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12397-1     Document Type: Article

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