Optical assessment of motoneuron function in a "twenty-four-hour" acute spinal cord slice model from fetal rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 309-320

  Metzger, Friedrich ^c   Klapproth, Nadine ^b   Kulik, Anna ^b   Sendtner, Michael ^c   Ballanyi, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell death; Embryonic rats; Excitotoxicity; Mitochondria; Motor neurons; Vitality

Indexed keywords

FURA 2; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; RHODAMINE 123;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CELL DEATH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CYANIDES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EMBRYO; FURA-2; GLUTAMIC ACID; IODOACETATES; ISCHEMIA; MITOCHONDRIA; MOTOR NEURONS; PROPIDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHODAMINE 123; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12344276786     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.07.016     Document Type: Article

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