Mu-opioid receptor is located on the plasma membrane of dendrites that receive asymmetric synapses from axon terminals containing leucine-enkephalin in the rat nucleus locus coeruleus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-74

  Van Bockstaele, E J ^a,c   Colago, E E O ^a   Moriwaki, A ^b   Uhl, G R ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NIDA Addiction Research Center   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

drug abuse; enkephalin; morphine; norepinephrine; opiates

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; METENKEPHALIN; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; OPIATE PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DENDRITE; EXOCYTOSIS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL MEMBRANE; DENDRITES; ENKEPHALIN, LEUCINE; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NERVE ENDINGS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0029808868     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961202)376:1<65::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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