Modulation of sensory inhibition in the ventrobasal thalamus via activation of group II metabotropic glutamate receptors by 2R,4R-aminopyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylate

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-185

  Salt, T E ^a   Turner, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2R,4R 4 Aminopyrrolidine 2,4 dicarboxylate; Metabotropic glutamate receptors; Presynaptic inhibition; Rat; Somatosensory thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLEEP; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROLINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SENSATION; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0031862967     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050450     Document Type: Article

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