Long-duration perforated patch recordings from spinal interneurons of adult mice

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2783-2789

  Husch, Andreas ^a   Cramer, Nathan ^a   Harris Warrick, Ronald M ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LAMINECTOMY; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORATED PATCH RECORDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; DISSECTION; INTERNEURONS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80755168166     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00673.2011     Document Type: Article

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