Evidence for colocalization of GABA and glycine in afferents to retrogradely labelled rat abducens motoneurones

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 161-164

  Lahjouji, Fatiha ^a   Barbe, Annick ^a   Chazal, Geneviève ^b   Bras, Hélène ^a  

^a U de Neurocybernetique Cell   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Abducens motoneurones; Colocalization; Glycine; Post embedding; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0029867897     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)12465-4     Document Type: Article

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