Is NMDA receptor activation essential for the production of locomotor-like activity in the neonatal rat spinal cord?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3805-3814

  Cowley, Kristine C ^a   Zaporozhets, Eugene ^a   MacLean, Jason N ^a,b   Schmidt, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; MAGNESIUM ION; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; VENTRAL ROOT; VERTEBRATE;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EDROPHONIUM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; MAGNESIUM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 28044438668     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00016.2005     Document Type: Article

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