Nitric oxide increases the spontaneous firing rate of rat medial vestibular nucleus neurons in vitro via a cyclic GMP-mediated PKG-independent mechanism

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2124-2132

  Podda, Maria Vittoria ^a   Marcocci, Maria Elena ^b   Oggiano, Leonardo ^a   D'Ascenzo, Marcello ^a   Tolu, Eusebio ^c   Palamara, Anna Teresa ^b   Azzena, Gian Battista ^a   Grassi, Claudio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brainstem slices; cAMP; Cyclic nucleotide gated channels; Extracellular recordings; Nested PCR

Indexed keywords

1H 1,2,4 OXADIAZOLO[4,3 A]QUINOXALIN 1 ONE; 2 (4 CARBOXYPHENYL) 4,4,5,5 TETRAMETHYLIMIDAZOLINE 1 OXYL 3 OXIDE; 8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; 8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; BETA PHENYL 1,N2 ETHENO 8 BROMOGUANOSINE 3',5' CYCLIC MONOPHOSPHOROTHIOATE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC GMP DERIVATIVE; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; DILTIAZEM; KT 5823; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; MALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 4944267417     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03674.x     Document Type: Article

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