Morphophysiologic properties of islet cells in substantia gelatinosa of the rat spinal cord

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 446, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 65-69

  Melnick, Igor ^a  

^a BOGOMOLETZ INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Currents; Firing; Interneurons; Morphology; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLOW INWARD CURRENT; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BARIUM; CELL SHAPE; CESIUM; DENDRITES; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PAIN; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 53849112943     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.027     Document Type: Article

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