The sensitivity of rat spinal interneurones and Renshaw cells to L-glutamate and L-aspartate
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Nature in Experimental Brain Research
- Vol. 26 (5) , 547-551
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00238827
Abstract
L-Glutamate and L-aspartate were administered electrophoretically near spinal interneurones and Renshaw cells of pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rats. Other spinal interneurones were consistently more sensitive to L-glutamate than to L-aspartate. Renshaw cells, however, showed no consistent difference in their sensitivity to these two amino acids. The results, which are compared with those reported previously in the cat, support the hypothesis that L-glutamate could be a transmitter at spinal primary afferent terminals.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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