Variations in amino acid neurotransmitters in the rat ventral spinal cord after hindlimb unloading

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 403, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 147-150

  Treffort, N ^a   Dubreucq, G ^b   Canu, M H ^a   Guerardel Y ^c   Falempin, M ^a   Picquet, F ^a  

^a IFR 118   (France)

^b Biodex ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Amino acid neurotransmitters; Hindlimb unloading; Ventral spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; ASPARTIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB; INNERVATION; LOADING TEST; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33745489200     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.04.031     Document Type: Article

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