Ultrastructural evidence for prominent distribution of the μ-opioid receptor at extrasynaptic sites on noradrenergic dendrites in the rat nucleus locus coeruleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 5037-5048

  Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a   Colago, Eric E O ^a   Cheng, Peter ^a   Moriwaki, Akiyoshi ^b   Uhl, George R ^b   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NIDA Addiction Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

drug abuse; enkephalin; excitatory amino acid; morphine; norepinephrine; opiate

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; METENKEPHALIN; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; DRUG ABUSE; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0029782628     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-16-05037.1996     Document Type: Article

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