A confocal microscopic survey of serotoninergic axons in the lumbar spinal cord of the rat: Co-localization with glutamate decarboxylase and neuropeptides

Neuroscience

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 471-480

  Maxwell, L ^a   Maxwell, D J ^a   Neilson, M ^a   Kerr, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 hydroxytryptamine; bulbospinal axons; co existence; GABA; image analysis; immunofluorescence

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; NEUROPEPTIDE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

EID: 0030601695     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(96)00366-1     Document Type: Article

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