Neurons with distinctive firing patterns, morphology and distribution in laminae V-VII of the neonatal rat lumbar spinal cord

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 537-544

  Szûcs, Péter ^a   Odeh, Francis ^a   Szokol, Karolina ^a   Antal, Miklós ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biocytin labelling; Slice preparation; Spinal interneurons; Whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPOLARIZATION; GRAY MATTER; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; VENTRAL ROOT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0037330062     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02484.x     Document Type: Article

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