Excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs shape the discharge pattern of pump neurons of the nucleus tractus solitarii in the rat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-200

  Miyazaki, Makoto ^b   Tanaka, Ikuko ^a   Ezure, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid (GABA)(A) receptor; Glycine; Lung inflation; N methyl D aspartic acid (NMDA); Nucleus tractus solitarii; P cells; Respiration

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BICUCULLINE; DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PENTOBARBITAL; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACILITATION; INTERNEURON; IONTOPHORESIS; LUNG RECEPTOR; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE; VAGUS NERVE;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; 6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BACLOFEN; BICUCULLINE; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; GLYCINE AGENTS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; STRYCHNINE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032724286     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050889     Document Type: Article

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