Three types of putative presympathetic neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla studied with rat brainstem-spinal cord preparation

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 40-49

  Oshima, Naoki ^a   Kumagai, Hiroo ^a   Kawai, Akira ^b   Sakata, Katsufumi ^a   Matsuura, Tomokazu ^a   Saruta, Takao ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antidromic action potential; Brainstem spinal cord preparation; Excitatory postsynaptic potential; Presympathetic neurons; Rostral ventrolateral medulla; Whole cell patch clamp technique

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CELL TYPE; DENDRITE; DEPOLARIZATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; SPINAL CORD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0034735734     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(00)00179-X     Document Type: Article

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