Characteristics of the electrical oscillations evoked by 4-aminopyridine on dorsal root fibers and their relation to fictive locomotor patterns in the rat spinal cord in vitro

Neuroscience

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1187-1197

  Taccola, G ^a   Nistri, A ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Burst; Central pattern generator; Motoneuron; Presynaptic inhibition; Spinal network

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 AMINOPYRIDINE; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BICUCULLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; STRYCHNINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LOCOMOTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD POTENTIAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VENTRAL ROOT;

EID: 18044367527     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.02.012     Document Type: Article

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