Changes in electrophysiological properties of axon terminals of locus coeruleus neurons with age in F344 rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-71

  Shirokawa, Tetsuya ^a   Ishida, Yoshiyuki ^a,b   Isobe, Ken ichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Conduction time; Locus coeruleus; Spontaneous activity; Threshold current

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0034726013     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01257-X     Document Type: Article

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