Vesicle shape and amino acids in synaptic inputs to phrenic motoneurons: Do all inputs contain either glutamate or GABA?

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 373, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 200-219

  Murphy, Susan M ^a   Pilowsky, Paul M ^a   Llewellyn Smith, Ida J ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; glutamate decarboxylase; immunogold; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; PHRENIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0029785847     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960916)373:2<200::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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