Enhanced homosynaptic LTD in cerebellar Purkinje cells of the dystrophic mdx mouse

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-334

  Anderson, Jennifer L ^a   Morley, John W ^a,b   Head, Stewart I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Dystrophin; EPSP; LTD; Purkinje cell

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; CALCIUM; DYSTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PURKINJE CELL; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; WILD TYPE; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DYSTROPHIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 77649155250     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21467     Document Type: Article

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