Methylmercury differentially affects GABAA receptor-mediated spontaneous IPSCs in Purkinje and granule cells of rat cerebellar slices

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 550, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 191-204

  Yuan, Yukun ^a   Atchison, William D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; CHLORINE; METHYLMERCURY; PICROTOXIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBELLUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; RECORDING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CEREBELLAR SLICE; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; COUNTERCURRENT FLOW; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HOLDING POTENTIAL; MINIATURE INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; SPONTANEOUS INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037930194     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.040543     Document Type: Article

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