Ultrastructural localization of tyrosine hydroxylase in the rat ventral tegmental area: Relationship between immunolabeling density and neuronal associations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1990, Pages 2996-3013

  Bayer, Virginia E ^a   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SYNAPSE; TEGMENTUM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITES; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYNAPSES; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0025486521     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.10-09-02996.1990     Document Type: Article

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