Do synaptic rearrangements underlie compensatory reflex enhancement in spinal motoneurons after partial cell loss?

Synapse

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 384-391

  Holmberg, Per ^a   Kellerth, Jan Olof ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adult mammals; Axonal lesion; Retrograde cell death; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CAT; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VENTRAL ROOT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL DEATH; CHOLERA TOXIN; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0034672815     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2396(20001215)38:4<384::AID-SYN3>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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