Corticotropin-releasing factor-containing axon terminals synapse onto catecholamine dendrites and may resynaptically modulate other afferents in the rostral pole of the nucleus locus coeruleus in the rat brain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 364, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 523-534

  Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a   Colago, Eric E O ^a   Valentino, Rita J ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunoelectron microscopy; Neuropeptide; Norepinephrine; Presynaptic; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; DENDRITE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CATECHOLAMINES; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DENDRITES; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0030070451     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960115)364:3<523::AID-CNE10>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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