Pharmacology of currents underlying the different firing patterns of spinal sensory neurons and interneurons identified in vivo using multivariate analysis

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2487-2500

  Winlove, Crawford I P ^a   Roberts, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Current clamp; Electrophysiology; Spinal cord; Whole cell recording; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; AMILORIDE; CATECHOL; MARGATOXIN; MUSCARINE; NIMODIPINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CLAMP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; WHOLE CELL; XENOPUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; INTERNEURONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 79956286294     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00779.2010     Document Type: Article

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