Electrical synapses between dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 291-298

  Vandecasteele, Marie ^a   Glowinski, Jacques ^a   Venance, Laurent ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Connexin; Dopaminergic neuron; Electrical synapse; Gap junctions; Paired recordings; Substantia nigra pars compacta

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAP JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 12144269165     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4167-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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