Acid sensitivity and ultrastructure of the retrotrapezoid nucleus in Phox2b-EGFP transgenic mice

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 517, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-86

  Lazarenko, Roman M ^a   Milner, Teresa A ^b,c   Depuy, Seth D ^a   Stornetta, Ruth L ^a   West, Gavin H ^a   Kievits, Justin A ^b   Bayliss, Douglas A ^a   Guyenet, Patrice G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing; Central chemoreceptors; Medulla oblongata; Phox2b; Respiration; Retrotrapezoid nucleus

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PHOX2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL LABELING; CELL SHAPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROTRAPEZOID NUCLEUS NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRAIN STEM; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DENDRITES; GALANIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PERICYTES; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 70349798587     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22136     Document Type: Article

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