Morphometric study of glycine-immunoreactive neurons and terminals in the rat cuneate nucleus

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 375-385

  Lue, J H ^a   Shieh, W F ^a   Chen, S H ^a   Shieh, J Y ^a   Wen, C Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Somatosensory system

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; GLYCINE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0030665033     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021878297002604     Document Type: Article

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