H-reflex down-conditioning greatly increases the number of identifiable GABAergic interneurons in rat ventral horn

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 452, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-129

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

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; GABAergic interneurons; H reflex conditioning; Learning and memory; Motor control; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HOFFMANN REFLEX; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; H-REFLEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 60549089344     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.01.054     Document Type: Article

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