Multi-tasking in the spinal cord - Do 'sympathetic' interneurones work harder than we give them credit for?

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 580, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 723-729

  Deuchars, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; SEROTONIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; INTERNEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; ANIMAL; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SPINAL CORD; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 34249849928     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.129429     Document Type: Review

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