Effects of H-reflex up-conditioning on GABAergic terminals on rat soleus motoneurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 668-674

  Pillai, Shreejith ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Wolpaw, Jonathan R ^a   Chen, Xiang Yang ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; Learning; Memory; Motor control; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUOR; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HOFFMANN REFLEX; INJECTION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 49249128790     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06370.x     Document Type: Article

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