Intrinsic properties of lumbar motor neurones in the adult G127insTGGG superoxide dismutase-1 mutant mouse in vivo: Evidence for increased persistent inward currents

Acta Physiologica

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 361-376

  Meehan, C F ^a   Moldovan, M ^a   Marklund, S L ^b   Graffmo, K S ^b   Nielsen, J B ^a   Hultborn, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; G 127X; Intrinsic properties; Mice; Motor neurones; SOD1

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; WILD TYPE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; SPINAL CORD; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 78149482855     PISSN: 17481708     EISSN: 17481716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02188.x     Document Type: Article

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