GABAaergic synapses on μ-opioid receptor-expressing neurons in the superficial dorsal horn: An electron microscope study in the cat spinal cord

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Gong, Liang Wei ^a   Ding, Yu Qiang ^a   Wang, Dan ^a   Zheng, Heng Xing ^a   Qin, Bing Zhi ^a   Li, Ji Shuo ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^b   Mizuno, Noboru ^b  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Opioid receptor; Cat; Dorsal horn; Electron microscopy; GABA; Immunohistochemistry; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BACK; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CATS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030610223     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00286-3     Document Type: Article

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