Transmitter-phenotypes of commissural interneurons in the lumbar spinal cord of newborn mice

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 517, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 177-192

  Restrepo, Carlos Ernesto ^a   Lundfald, Line ^a   Szabó, Gabor ^b   Erdélyi, Ferenc ^b   Zeilhofer, Hanns Ulrich ^c   Glover, Joel C ^d   Kiehn, Ole ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Commissural interneurons; CPG; GABA; Glutamate; Glycine; Locomotion; Motor neurons; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GLYCINE; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 2; NEUROTRANSMITTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; COMMISSURAL INTERNEURON; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERNEURON; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DEXTRANS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 70349829180     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22144     Document Type: Article

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