Cervical dorsal rhizotomy enhances serotonergic innervation of phrenic motoneurons and serotonin-dependent long-term facilitation of respiratory motor output in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 8436-8443

  Kinkead, Richard ^c   Zhan, Wen Zhi ^b   Prakash, Y S ^b   Bach, Karen B ^a   Sieck, Gary C ^b   Mitchell, Gordon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Long term facilitation; Phrenic motoneurons; Plasticity; Respiratory control; Rhizotomy; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; KETANSERIN TARTRATE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 2 ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; FACILITATION; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXIA; MALE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE;

EID: 0032531678     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-20-08436.1998     Document Type: Article

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