Post- and presynaptic effects of norepinephrine in guinea-pig colonic submucous plexus

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-130

  Dobreva, G ^a   Neunlist, M ^a   Frieling, T ^b   Schemann, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha adrenoreceptors; Distal colon; Norepinephrine; sIPSP; Submucous plexus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CLONIDINE; NORADRENALIN; PHENTOLAMINE; PRAZOSIN; YOHIMBINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLON; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITABILITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GUINEA PIG; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CLONIDINE; COLON; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GUINEA PIGS; MICROELECTRODES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHENTOLAMINE; PRAZOSIN; SYNAPSES; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 0031939137     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2982.1998.00081.x     Document Type: Article

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