Spinal cord astrocytes display a switch from TTX-sensitive to TTX- resistant sodium currents after injury-induced gliosis in vitro

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2222-2226

  MacFarlane, Stacey Nee ^a   Sontheimer, Harald ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b CIRC Bldg   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN INJURY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 0031953813     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.4.2222     Document Type: Article

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