Identification of signal substances in synapses made between primary afferents and their associated axon terminals in the rat trigeminal sensory nuclei

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 418, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 299-309

  Bae, Yong Chul ^a   Ihn, Hye Jung ^a   Park, Mae Ja ^a   Ottersen, Ole Petter ^b   Moritani, Masayuki ^c   Yoshida, Atsushi ^c   Shigenaga, Yoshio ^c  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axoaxonic; GABA; Glutamate; Postembedding immunolabeling

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SENSATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0012240395     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(20000313)418:3<299::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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