Glycinergic miniature synaptic currents and receptor cluster sizes differ between spinal cord interneurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 312-319

  Oleskevich, Sharon ^a,c   Alvarez, Francisco J ^b   Walmsley, Bruce ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MINIATURE ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032771349     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.1.312     Document Type: Article

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