Spinal cord injury enables aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase cells to synthesize monoamines

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 11984-12000

  Wienecke, Jacob ^a,b   Ren, Li Qun ^a,d   Hultborn, Hans ^a   Chen, Meng ^a   Møller, Morten ^a   Zhang, Yifan ^a   Zhang, Mengliang ^a,c  

^a Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d CHENGDE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

5 HTP; AADC; Motoneuron; Serotonin; Spasticity; Supersensitivity

Indexed keywords

5-HTP; AADC; MOTONEURON; SEROTONIN; SPASTICITY; SUPERSENSITIVITY;

5-HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AROMATIC-L-AMINO-ACID DECARBOXYLASES; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1B; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84906904643     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3838-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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