Mechanisms shaping the slow nicotinic synaptic current at the Motoneuron-Renshaw Cell Synapse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8413-8423

  d'Incamps, Boris Lamotte ^a   Krejci, Eric ^a   Ascher, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; MECLOFENAMIC ACID; NEOSTIGMINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENSHAW CELL; SYNAPSE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAP JUNCTIONS; INTERNEURONS; MECLOFENAMIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR NEURONS; NEOSTIGMINE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84862248749     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0181-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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