γ-Aminobutyric acidergic and glycinergic inputs shape coding of amplitude modulation in the chinchilla cochlear nucleus

Hearing Research

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 77-88

  Backoff, Patricia M ^a,c   Palombi, Peggy Shadduck ^b,c   Caspary, Donald M ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid; Amplitude modulation; Chinchilla; Cochlear nucleus; Glycine; Inhibitory amino acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MUSCIMOL; STRYCHNINE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IONTOPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; IONTOPHORESIS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032817269     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(99)00071-4     Document Type: Article

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