A light- and electron-microscopic study of GluR4-positive cells in cerebral cortex, subcortical white matter and corpus callosum of neonatal, immature and adult rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 367-378

  Ong, W Y ^a   Leong, S K ^a   Garey, L J ^b   Reynolds, R ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Development; Electron microscopy; Glutamate receptor; Rat; White matter

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR;

AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0029815168     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00229137     Document Type: Article

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