Excitatory Neurotoxic Properties of Pontamine Sky Blue Make It a Useful Tool for Examining the Functions of Focal Brain Parts

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-70

  Nagano, Mayuko ^a   Ashidate, Noriko ^a   Yamamoto, Kayo ^a   Ishimizu, Yohko ^a   Saitoh, Sanae ^a   Konishi, Yukiko ^a   Koga, Tomoshige ^a   Fukuda, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KAWASAKI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Defecation reflex; Excitatory neurotoxin; Membrane potential; Pontamine sky blue; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

DYE; HEXAMETHONIUM; PONTAMINE SKY BLUE; TETRODOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MINIATURE ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PONS ANGLE; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; RAT; REFLEX; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; SENSORY GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AZO COMPOUNDS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; DEFECATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; RANA PIPIENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRYPAN BLUE;

EID: 1842681770     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.54.61     Document Type: Article

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