Connectivity of pacemaker neurons in the neonatal rat superficial dorsal horn

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 523, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1038-1053

  Li, Jie ^a   Kritzer, Elizabeth ^a   Ford, Neil C ^a,b   Arbabi, Shahriar ^a   Baccei, Mark L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

AB_1587626; AB_2301751; AB_2336883; Burst firing; Lamina I; Premotor interneuron; Spinal cord; Synapse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDORABIES VIRUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84924810129     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23706     Document Type: Article

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