Effect of ethanol on the excitability of the inferior olive in decerebrate ferret

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 761-767

  Svensson, Pär ^a,b   Hesslow, Germund ^a   Winton, Robert ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Dept of Physiology and Neuroscience ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; FERRET; INFERIOR OLIVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DECEREBRATE STATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FERRETS; RECEPTORS, GABA;

EID: 0030430338     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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