Changes in electrophysiological properties of tibial motoneurones in the rat following 4 weeks of tetrodotoxin-induced paralysis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-24

  Cormery, Bruno ^a   François Marini, Jean ^b   Gardiner, Phillip F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Electrophysiological properties; Inactivity; Retrograde influence; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; MOTONEURON; NERVE MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; TIBIAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PARALYSIS; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0343729531     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01110-1     Document Type: Article

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