Plasticity of Na+ channels in afferent neurones innervating rat urinary bladder following spinal cord injury

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 503, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 269-276

  Yoshimura, Naoki ^a   De Groat, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER INNERVATION; CELL SIZE; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SODIUM CURRENT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL GANGLION; ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLADDER; EXCITABILITY; INNERVATION; SPIKE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TETRODOTOXIN; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0030768601     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.269bh.x     Document Type: Article

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