Augmentation and ionic mechanism of effect of β-N-methylamino-l-alanine in presence of bicarbonate on membrane potential of Retzius nerve cells of the leech Haemopis sanguisuga

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 284-292

  Lopicic, Srdjan ^a   Nedeljkov, Vladimir ^a   Cemerikic, Dusan ^a  

^a Institute for Pathology   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Bicarbonate; BMAA; CNQX; Input membrane resistance; Intracellular Na+ and K+ activities; Leech Retzius neurons

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BICARBONATE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; RINGER SOLUTION;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DOSE RESPONSE; EXCITOTOXICITY; LEECH; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; RETZIUS NERVE CELL; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

HAEMOPIS SANGUISUGA; HIRUDINIDA;

EID: 67349244311     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.02.038     Document Type: Article

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