Effects of cyanide and hypoxia on membrane currents in neurones acutely dissociated from the rostral ventrolateral medulla of the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 830, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 246-257

  Kawai, Yoshinori ^a   Qi, Jianguo ^a   Comer, Alison M ^a   Gibbons, Hannah ^a   Win, Joe ^a   Lipski, Janusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular regulation; Catecholamines; Chemosensitivity; Electrophysiology; Medulla oblongata; Single cell RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE; OXYGEN; PENTOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CALCIUM CURRENT; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSOR; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ANIMALS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM CYANIDE;

EID: 0033526579     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01397-9     Document Type: Article

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