Ultrastructural relationships between leu-enkephalin- and GABA-containing neurons differ within the hippocampal formation

Brain Research

Volumn 724, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Commons, Kathryn G ^a   Milner, Teresa A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

dense core vesicle; dentate gyrus; electron microscopy; learning and memory; mossy fiber; opioid peptide

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0029975393     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00236-3     Document Type: Article

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