Dual character, asynaptic and synaptic, of the dopamine innervation in adult rat neostriatum: A quantitative autoradiographic and immunocytochemical analysis

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 375, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-186

  Descarries, Laurent ^a   Watkins, Kenneth C ^a   Garcia, Sylvia ^a   Bosler, Olivier ^a,b   Doucet, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

electron microscopy radioautography; immunocytochemistry; microenvironment; synaptic frequency

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEOSTRIATUM; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0029998572     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961111)375:2<167::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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