The actions of monoamines and distribution of noradrenergic and serotoninergic contacts on different subpopulations of commissural interneurons in the cat spinal cord

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1305-1316

  Hammar, Ingela ^a   Bannatyne, B Anne ^b   Maxwell, David J ^b   Edgley, Stephen A ^c   Jankowska, Elzbieta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cat; Confocal microscopy; Group II afferents; Reticular formation; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; MONOAMINE; NEUROBION; NORADRENALIN; RHODAMINE; SEROTONIN; TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL LABELING; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SENSORY NERVE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; CATS; FEMALE; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 1642301385     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03239.x     Document Type: Article

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