Nitrous oxide and the inhibitory synaptic transmission in rat dorsal horn neurons

European Journal of Pain

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-22

  Georgiev, Stefan K ^a   Baba, Hiroshi ^a   Kohno, Tatsuro ^a,b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Pain Mechanism Research Group   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Dorsal horn; GABA; Glycine; Nitrous oxide; Spinal cord slice; Whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; NITROUS OXIDE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 72049100976     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: 15322149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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