Picrotoxin increased acetylcholine release from rat cultured embryonic septal neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 356, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-60

  Suzuki, Takeshi ^a   Takagi, Ryoichi ^a   Kawashima, Koichiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Chloride; Culture; GABA; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Hippocampus; Septum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ACETYLCHOLINE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; PICROTOXIN;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 1642431685     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.11.031     Document Type: Article

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