Pii: S0304-3940(02)00749-8
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New techniques were applied for maintaining viable motoneurons in rat cervical spinal cord slices to study electrical and morphological properties from postnatal day (PD) 2–49. Lucifer Yellow injections showed nine to 12, or more, viable motoneurons/slice at PD2, reduced to two to three in lamina IX by PD9. At PD2 and from PD14 onward healthy motoneurons were electrically similar to those of adults. Motoneurons exhibited variable electrical properties and morphology around PD5. They were sensitive to kainate and AMPA at all ages. The sensitivity to N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) was significant at PD2, less at PD9 and virtually absent at PD14. Our observations suggest that NMDA receptors play a role in regulation of motoneuron survival in the early postnatal period, but are lost from adult motoneurons. q 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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