Enhancement of GABA-mediated inhibition of rat medial vestibular nucleus neurons by the neurosteroid 20-hydroxyecdysone

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-16

  Okada, Meiko ^a   Ishihara, Kumatoshi ^a   Sasa, Masashi ^a   Izumi, Ryutaro ^c   Yajin, Koji ^a   Harada, Yasuo ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Japan Space Utiliz Promotion Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dissociated neuron; Electrophysiology; Horizontal sinusoidal rotations; Microiontophoresis; Patch clamp

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ECDYSTERONE; ION CHANNEL; NEUROSTEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECDYSTERONE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; ROTATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0031886788     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016489850155062     Document Type: Article

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