Physiological, neurochemical and morphological properties of a subgroup of GABAergic spinal lamina II neurones identified by expression of green fluorescent protein in mice

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 560, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 249-266

  Heinke, Bernhard ^a   Ruscheweyh, Ruth ^a   Forsthuber, Liesbeth ^a   Wunderbaldinger, Gabriele ^a   Sandkühler, Jürgen ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CELL ENZYME; GLYCINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN KINASE C BETA; PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; PROTEIN KINASE C BETA II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ADULT; GABAERGIC SPINAL LAMINA II NEURON; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINAL CORD SLICE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NOCICEPTORS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TOUCH;

EID: 6444242808     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.070540     Document Type: Article

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