Adaptation of guinea-pig vagal airway afferent neurones to mechanical stimulation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 521, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 239-247

  Allen McAlexander, M ^a   Myers, Allen C ^a   Undem, Bradley J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS ASTHMA AND ALLERGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GANGLION; GUINEA PIG; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NODOSE GANGLION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; TRACHEA; VAGUS NERVE; AIRWAY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0345504109     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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