Ultrastructural evidence for convergence of enkephalin and adrenaline-containing axon terminals on common targets and their presynaptic associations in the rat nucleus locus coeruleus

Brain Research

Volumn 718, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 61-75

  Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a   Chan, June ^a   Biswas, Arunava ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Norepinephrine; Opiate withdrawal; Paragigantocellularis; Ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ENKEPHALIN; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0029924859     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00004-2     Document Type: Article

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