Inhibitory interneurons that express GFP in the PrP-GFP mouse spinal cord are morphologically heterogeneous, innervated by several classes of primary afferent and include lamina I projection neurons among their postsynaptic targets

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 7626-7642

  Ganley, Robert P ^a   Iwagaki, Noboru ^a   del Rio, Patricia ^a   Baseer, Najma ^a   Dickie, Allen C ^a   Boyle, Kieran A ^a   Polgár, Erika ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^b   Abraira, Victoria E ^c   Zimmerman, Amanda ^c   Riddell, John S ^a   Todd, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Galanin; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; GALANIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PRION PROTEIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; AGENTS ACTING ON THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS AND NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEMS; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PRION; PROTEIN V FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRION; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CAPSAICIN; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PRIONS; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; SENSORY SYSTEM AGENTS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84929379196     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0406-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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