Serotonin facilitates a persistent calcium current in motoneurons of rats with and without chronic spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1236-1246

  Li, X ^a   Murray, K ^a   Harvey, P J ^a   Ballou, E W ^a   Bennett, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; CALCIUM ION; CESIUM ION; NIMODIPINE; SEROTONIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FACILITATION; FEMALE; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE SPASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 33846908702     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00995.2006     Document Type: Article

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