Development of a tonic form of synaptic inhibition in rat cerebellar granule cells resulting from persistent activation of GABAA receptors

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 497, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 753-759

  Brickley, Stephen G ^a   Cull Candy, Stuart G ^a   Farrant, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; GRANULE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030476450     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021806     Document Type: Article

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