Alcohol Enhances GABAergic Transmission to Cerebellar Granule Cells via an Increase in Golgi Cell Excitability

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3746-3751

  Carta, Mario ^a   Mameli, Manuel ^a   Valenzuela, C Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel; Ethanol; Inhibitory; Ligand gated; Neurotransmitter; Release

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALCOHOL; SYNAPSE RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GOLGI COMPLEX; GRANULE CELL; INGESTION; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOXICOKINETICS;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 1942425652     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0067-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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