Effects of GABA and bicuculline on the electrical activity of rat olfactory placode neurons derived at E13.5 and cultured for 1 week on multi-electrode dishes

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-176

  Suyama, Kumiko ^a   Daikoku, Shigeo ^a   Funabashi, Toshiya ^a   Kimura, Fukuko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bicuculline; Cultures; Extracellular recording; GABA; MED; Rat olfactory placode

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE;

ARTICLE; DERIVATIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FACILITATION; FISHER EXACT TEST; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVE; PHASE TRANSITION; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CELLS, CULTURED; ECTODERM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NEURONS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 2442691355     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.51.171     Document Type: Article

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