Interactions between focused synaptic inputs and diffuse neuromodulation in the spinal cord

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1198, Issue , 2010, Pages 35-41

  Johnson, M D ^a   Heckman, C J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

motoneuron; neuromodulation; PIC; push pull

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; PERSISTENT INWARD CURRENT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; DENDRITE; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPSE;

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; DENDRITES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; MAMMALS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 77954583620     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05430.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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