Ultrastructural localization of neurotransmitter immunoreactivity in messy cell axons and their synaptic targets in the rat dentate gyrus

Hippocampus

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 559-570

  Wenzel, H Jürgen ^a   Buckmaster, Paul S ^a,c   Andersen, Norma L ^a   Wenzel, Mareike E ^a   Schwartzkroin, Philip A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; GABA; Glutamate; Hippocampus; Postembedding immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BIOCYTIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030692059     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1063(1997)7:5<559::aid-hipo11>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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