Differential plasticity of the GABAergic and glycinergic synaptic transmission to rat lumbar motoneurons after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3358-3369

  Sadlaoud, Karina ^a   Tazerart, Sabrina ^a   Brocard, Cécile ^a   Jean Xavier, Céline ^a   Portalier, Paule ^a   Brocard, Frédéric ^a   Vinay, Laurent ^a   Bras, Hélène ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 4 IODO 2,5 DIMETHOXYAMPHETAMINE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN STEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77749307767     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6310-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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