Adult spinal motoneurones are not hyperexcitable in a mouse model of inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 592, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1687-1703

  Delestrée, Nicolas ^a   Manuel, Marin ^a,b   Iglesias, Caroline ^a   Elbasiouny, Sherif M ^b   Heckman, C J ^b   Zytnicki, Daniel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL NERVE; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; SPINAL NERVES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897371904     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.265843     Document Type: Article

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