Doublet of action potentials evoked by intracellular injection of rectangular depolarization current into rat motoneurones

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Mrowczynski W ^a   Krutki, P ^a   Chakarov, V ^b   Celichowski, J ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

^b CENTRE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Doublet; Intracellular injection; Motoneuron; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MOTONEURON; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955012594     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2339-7     Document Type: Article

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