Evidence against a role of gap junctions in vestibular compensation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 450, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-101

  Beraneck, M ^a   Uno, A ^a   Vassias, I ^a   Idoux, E ^b   De Waele, C ^a   Vidal, P P ^a   Vibert, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Gap junction; In vitro; Vestibular compensation

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 36; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOTHELIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPIKE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 43; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 58149333140     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.11.062     Document Type: Article

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