Effects of metabotropic glutamate receptor block on the synaptic transmission and plasticity in the rat medial vestibular nuclei

Neuroscience

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 159-169

  Grassi, S ^a   Malfagia, C ^a   Pettorossi, V E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Field potential; Glutamate; High frequency stimulation; Long term potentiation; NMDA receptor; Vestibular afferent stimulation

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BENZOATES; CYCLOLEUCINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLYCINE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0032581175     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00138-9     Document Type: Article

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