Two distinct populations of projection neurons in the rat lateral parafascicular thalamic nucleus and their cholinergic responsiveness

Neuroscience

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-173

  Beatty, J A ^a,b   Sylwestrak, E L ^a,b   Cox, C L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; basal ganglia; burst; muscarinic; thalamostriatal; thalamus

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TARGET CELL; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M2; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M3; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC;

EID: 67349269248     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.04.043     Document Type: Article

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