Molecular and functional differences in voltage-activated sodium currents between GABA projection neurons and dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3019-3034

  Ding, Shengyuan ^a   Wei, Wei ^a   Zhou, Fu Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Persistent sodium current; Resurgent sodium current; Substantia nigra; Transient sodium current

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.4; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.6; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL DENSITY; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE; STEADY STATE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; BIOPHYSICS; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CESIUM; CHLORIDES; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TEMPERATURE; TETRODOTOXIN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 83055186769     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00305.2011     Document Type: Article

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