Recurrent excitation of motoneurons in the isolated spinal cord of newborn rats detected by whole-cell recording

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 179-187

  Ichinose, Tomomi ^a   Miyata, Yuhei ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motoneuron; Patch clamp; Rat; Recurrent excitation; Spinal cord recurrent inhibition

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; MOTONEURON; NERVE STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECURRENT INHIBITION; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0031696198     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(98)00043-1     Document Type: Article

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