Enhanced transmission at a spinal synapse triggered in vivo by an injury signal independent of altered synaptic activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 47, 2007, Pages 12851-12859

  Bichler, Edyta K ^a   Nakanishi, Stan T ^c   Wang, Qing Bo ^b   Pinter, Martin J ^a   Rich, Mark M ^b   Cope, Timothy C ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motoneurons; Plasticity; Retrograde; Sensorimotor; Sensory neurons; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE CRUSH; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 36348990288     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1997-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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