Recovery of motoneuron and locomotor function after spinal cord injury depends on constitutive activity in 5-HT2C receptors

Nature Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 694-700

  Murray, Katherine C ^a   Nakae, Aya ^b   Stephens, Marilee J ^a   Rank, Michelle ^a   D'Amico, Jessica ^a   Harvey, Philip J ^a   Li, Xiaole ^a   Harris, R Luke W ^a   Ballou, Edward W ^a   Anelli, Roberta ^c   Heckman, Charles J ^b   Mashimo, Takashi ^a   Vavrek, Romana ^a   Sanelli, Leo ^a   Gorassini, Monica A ^a   Bennett, David J ^a   Fouad, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2,3,5 TETRAHYDRO 5 METHYL 1 (3 PYRIDYLCARBAMOYL)PYRROLO[2,3 F]INDOLE; CYPROHEPTADINE; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2C; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2; SEROTONIN; SPASM; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; UP-REGULATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 77953229364     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2160     Document Type: Article

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