Serotonin spillover onto the axon initial segment of motoneurons induces central fatigue by inhibiting action potential initiation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4774-4779

  Cotel, Florence ^a   Exley, Richard ^b   Cragg, Stephanie J ^b   Perrier, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Input output gain; Movement; Movement control; Spike genesis

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; FATIGUE; HYPOTHESIS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURTLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL MEMBRANE; FATIGUE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; SEROTONIN; SODIUM; TURTLES;

EID: 84875234468     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216150110     Document Type: Article

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