Quantitative analysis of substance P-immunoreactive boutons on physiologically characterized dorsal horn neurons in the cat lumbar spinal cord

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-64

  Ma, Weiya ^a   Ribeiro Da Silva, A ^a   De Koninck, Y ^a,b   Radhakrishnan, V ^a   Henry, J L ^a   Cuello, A C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Canadian MRC ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; horseradish peroxidase; immunocytochemistry; neurokinin; nociception

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; STAINING AND LABELING; SUBSTANCE P;

EID: 0029853227     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961202)376:1<45::AID-CNE3>3.3.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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