Effects of GABAA receptor inhibition on response properties of barrel cortical neurons in C-Fiber-depleted rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1050, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 27-32

  Farazifard, Rasoul ^a   Kiani, Roozbeh ^b   Esteky, Hossein ^a,b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; C fibers; Capsaicin; GABA

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; PICROTOXIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAPSAICIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DENERVATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; INNERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; DENERVATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PICROTOXIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 21544452552     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.05.026     Document Type: Article

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