Morphologic features and electrical membrane properties of projection neurons in the marginal layer of the medullary dorsal horn of the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 424, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-36

  Li, Yun Qing ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^b   Mizuno, Noboru ^c  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intracellular recording; Neurokinin 1 receptor; Nociception; Slice preparation; Somatosensory system; Spinal trigeminal nucleus

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPOLARIZATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034648375     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9861(20000814)424:1<24::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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