Electron microscopy of immunoreactivity patterns for glutamate and γ-aminobutyric acid in synaptic glomeruli of the feline spinal trigeminal nucleus (subnucleus caudalis)

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 366, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 465-477

  Iliakis, B ^a   Anderson, N L ^a   Irish, P S ^a   Henry, M A ^c   Westrum, L E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; Inhibitory; Nociception; Primary afferents; Substantia gelatinosa

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CATS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; TISSUE EMBEDDING; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0030066644     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960311)366:3<465::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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