Pre- and postsynaptic sites for serotonin modulation of GABA-containing neurons in the shell region of the rat nucleus accumbens

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 371, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 116-128

  Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a   Chan, June ^a   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 hydroxytryptamine; depression; inhibitory amino acid; locomotion; ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTISERUM; GOLD; SEROTONIN; SILVER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0029953323     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960715)371:1<116::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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