Serotonin modulates the properties of ascending commissural interneurons in the neonatal mouse spinal cord

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1545-1555

  Zhong, Guisheng ^a   Díaz Ríos, Manuel ^a   Harris Warrick, Ronald M ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EVALUATION; EXCITATION; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33645528869     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01103.2005     Document Type: Article

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