Variety of morphological and electrophysiological properties of area postrema neurons in adult rat brain slices

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-48

  Funahashi, Makoto ^a   Mitoh, Yoshihiro ^b   Akaike, Tadashi ^a   Matsuo, Ryuji ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Area postrema; Electrophysiology; Morphology; Patch clamp; Rats

Indexed keywords

CATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; AREA POSTREMA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 28944442779     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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