Distinctive membrane and discharge properties of rat spinal lamina I projection neurones in vitro

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 555, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 527-543

  Ruscheweyh, Ruth ^a   Ikeda, Hiroshi ^a,b   Heinke, Bernhard ^a   Sandkühler, Jürgen ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; LUCIFER YELLOW; POTASSIUM ION; TRACER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PATCH CLAMP; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PERIKARYON; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE SLICE; ARTICLE; DORSAL ROOT; FIRING RATE; LAMINA I NEURON; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD SLICE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; ISOQUINOLINES; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANES; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 1642267588     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.054049     Document Type: Review

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