Intrinsic properties of mouse lumbar motoneurons revealed by intracellular recording in vivo

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2599-2610

  Meehan, C F ^a   Sukiasyan, N ^a   Zhang, M ^a   Nielsen, J B ^a   Hultborn, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNORM; MIDAZOLAM;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD POTENTIAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR NEURONS; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952978909     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00668.2009     Document Type: Article

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