Locus coeruleus neurones in vitro: pH-sensitive oscillations of membrane potential in an electrically coupled network

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 131-147

  Oyamada, Y ^a   Andrzejewski, M ^a   Muckenhoff K ^a   Scheid, P ^a   Ballantyne, D ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Channels, gap junctions; Chemosensitivity, central, locus coeruleus; Control of breathing, central chemosensitivity; Gap junctions, locus coeruleus, central chemosensitivity; Mammals, rat; Neurons, locus coeruleus, gap junctions

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; TETRODOTOXIN; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ACIDOSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; DEPOLARIZATION; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERCAPNIA; LOCUS CERULEUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACIDOSIS; ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPERCAPNIA; LIDOCAINE; LOCUS COERULEUS; MAGNESIUM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0032730182     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(99)00088-2     Document Type: Article

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