Topographical and electrophysiological characteristics of highly excitable S neurones in the myenteric plexus of the guinea-pig ileum

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 517, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 817-830

  Smith, Terence K ^a   Burke, Edmund P ^a   Shuttleworth, C William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; BIOTIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GANGLION; GUINEA PIG; HYPERPOLARIZATION; ILEUM; INTERNEURON; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IMPEDANCE; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GUINEA PIGS; HEXAMETHONIUM; ILEUM; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOUTH; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0033564156     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0817s.x     Document Type: Article

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