Synaptic connections of purkinje cell axons with nucleocortical neurones in the cerebellar medial nucleus of the rat

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 345-348

  Angaut, Pierre ^a   Compoint, Claude ^b   Buisseret Delmas, Catherine ^b   Batini, Cesira ^b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; GABA; Nuclear cells; PC axon terminals; WGA HRP

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBELLUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030449626     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(96)01116-9     Document Type: Article

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