Modular double sucrose gap apparatus for improved recording of compound action potentials from rat and mouse spinal cord white matter preparations

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-40

  Velumian, Alexander A ^b,c   Wan, Yudi ^a,b   Samoilova, Marina ^a,b   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axons; Compound action potential; Electrophysiology; Mouse; Rat; Shiverer mouse; Spinal cord; Sucrose gap

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; MYELIN; OXYGEN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; C WAVE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL SEPARATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; COMPOUND ACTION POTENTIAL RECORDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE SUCROSE GAP; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOXIA; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AIR; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CELL HYPOXIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLUCOSE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; RATS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SPINAL CORD; SUCROSE; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77249107725     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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