Autonomic nervous system in vitro: Studying tonically active neurons controlling vagal outflow in rodent brainstem slices

Neuromethods

Volumn 73, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-59

  Trapp, Stefan ^a   Ballanyi, Klaus ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action potential; Appetite; Dorsal vagal motoneurons; Glucose; Leptin; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Nutrition; Preproglucagon

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 2; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.2; SULFONYLUREA RECEPTOR 1;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CELL ASSAY; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; METABOLIC INHIBITION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 84867489808     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-020-5_1     Document Type: Article

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