Ultrastructural immunocytochemical localization of neurotensin and the dopamine D2 receptor in the rat nucleus accumbens

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 371, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 552-566

  Delle Donne, Karen T ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^b   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

accumbens core; accumbens shell; colocalization; electron microscopy; immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; NEUROTENSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURONS; NEUROTENSIN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 0029833425     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960805)371:4<552::AID-CNE5>3.3.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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