Membrane and firing properties of glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the rat medial vestibular nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3106-3120

  Takazawa, Tomonori ^a   Saito, Yasuhiko ^a   Tsuzuki, Keisuke ^a   Ozawa, Seiji ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 2; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; PRIMER DNA;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIKE; TIME; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; WHOLE CELL; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VESTIBULE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VESTIBULE;

EID: 13844269428     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00494.2004     Document Type: Article

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