A spinal cord slice preparation for analyzing synaptic responses to stimulation of pelvic and pudendal nerves in mature rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 71-78

  Lu, Yan ^a,b   Inokuchi, Hiroe ^a   Tanaka, Eiichiro ^a   Li, Ji Shuo ^b   Higashi, Hideho ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dorsal commissural nucleus; Excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSP); Inhibitory postsynaptic potential (IPSP); Longitudinal spinal cord slice; Pelvic nerve; Pudendal nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GENITALIA, MALE; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE CULTURE;

EID: 0034738319     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00232-6     Document Type: Article

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