Ultrastructural immunocytochemical localization of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor and tyrosine hydroxylase in the shell of the rat nucleus accumbens

Brain Research

Volumn 739, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 169-181

  Gracy, K Noelle ^a   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

astrocyte; dopamine; glutamate; neurotoxicity; presynaptic release

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; DENDRITES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0030580418     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)00822-0     Document Type: Article

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