Ghrelin modulates electrical activity of area postrema neurons

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Fry, Mark ^a   Ferguson, Alastair V ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action potential; Energy homeostasis; Patch clamp; Sensory circumventricular organ

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; APPETITE; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENERGY METABOLISM; NERVE CONDUCTION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AREA POSTREMA; CELLS, CULTURED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; GHRELIN; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 64149122473     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90555.2008     Document Type: Article

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