Early alterations in the electrophysiological properties of rat spinal motoneurones following neonatal axotomy

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 582, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1141-1161

  Mentis, George Z ^a,b   Díaz, Eugenia ^a   Moran, Linda B ^a   Navarrete, Roberto ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTER DEPOLARIZATION; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DEPOLARIZATION; FIRING RATE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; REINNERVATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXOTOMY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 34547096242     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.133488     Document Type: Article

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