Dendritic spine remodeling after spinal cord injury alters neuronal signal processing

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2396-2409

  Tan, Andrew M ^b   Choi, Jin Sung ^b   Waxman, Stephen G ^a   Hains, Bryan C ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITIC SPINES; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350289958     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00095.2009     Document Type: Article

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