Dopamine enhances the excitability of somatosensory thalamocortical neurons

Neuroscience

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 981-991

  Govindaiah, G ^a,b   Wang, Y ^a   Cox, C L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine D2 receptor; Neuronal excitability; Potassium channel; Thalamus; Ventrobasal nucleus

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 77957135975     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.08.043     Document Type: Article

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