Ethanol directly depresses AMPA and NMDA glutamate currents in spinal cord motor neurons independent of actions on GABA(A) or glycine receptors

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 362-367

  Wang, Meng Ya ^a,c   Rampil, Ira J ^b,c   Kendig, Joan J ^c  

^a WANNAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ALCOHOL; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; BICUCULLINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; STRYCHNINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETHANOL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; TETRODOTOXIN;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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