Metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists, like GABA(B) antagonists, potentiate dorsal root-evoked excitatory synaptic transmission at neonatal rat spinal motoneurons in vitro

Neuroscience

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 243-250

  Cao, C Q ^a   Tse, H W ^a   Jane, D E ^a   Evans, R H ^a   Headley, P M ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MAP4; MCCG; metabotropic glutamate receptors; motoneurons; spinal cord; whole cell voltage clamp recording

Indexed keywords

1 AMINO 1,3 CYCLOPENTANEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; 2 (CARBOXYCYCLOPROPYL)GLYCINE; 2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; 2 METHYL 2 (CARBOXYCYCLOPROPYL)GLYCINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BACLOFEN; BENZYL[3 [[1 (3,4 DICHLOROPHENYL)ETHYL]AMINO] 2 HYDROXYPROPYL]PHOSPHINIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030897064     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00579-9     Document Type: Article

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