Genetically defined inhibitory neurons in the mouse spinal cord dorsal horn: A possible source of rhythmic inhibition of motoneurons during fictive locomotion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1137-1148

  Wilson, Jennifer M ^a   Blagovechtchenski, Evgueni ^a   Brownstone, Robert M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOS; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEXTRAN; FLUORO RUBY; FLUORO-RUBY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 2; PROTEIN C FOS; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEWBORN; PATCH CLAMP; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEXTRANS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIODICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RHODAMINES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 75749107062     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1401-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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