The excitability of lumbar motoneurones in the neonatal rat is increased by a hyperpolarization of their voltage threshold for activation by descending serotonergic fibres

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 558, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 213-224

  Gilmore, Jonathan ^a   Fedirchuk, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETANSERIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPOTHESIS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE PREPARATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; DESCENDING SEROTONERGIC FIBER; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NEUROMODULATION; ROSTRAL VENTROMEDIAL MEDULLA; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; THRESHOLD POTENTIAL; VENTRAL ROOT; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; KETANSERIN; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MOTOR NEURONS; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 4043147107     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.064717     Document Type: Article

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