Different effects of spinalization and locomotor training of spinal animals on cholinergic innervation of the soleus and tibialis anterior motoneurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2679-2688

  Skup, Malgorzata ^a   Gajewska Wozniak, Olga ^a   Grygielewicz, Paulina ^a   Mankovskaya, Tatsyana ^a   Czarkowska Bauch, Julita ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adult rat; C terminals; Locomotion; Spinalization; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; SYNAPTOPHYSIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; TARSUS, ANIMAL; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84865866516     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08182.x     Document Type: Article

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