Glutamate- and GABA-immunoreactive synapses on sympathetic preganglionic neurons caudal to a spinal cord transection in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1225-1235

  Llewellyn Smith, I J ^a   Cassam, A K ^b   Krenz, N R ^b   Krassioukov, A V ^b   Weaver, L C ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Autonomic dysreflexia; Cholera toxin B subunit; Immunocytochemistry; Retrograde tracing; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC HYPERREFLEXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBEDDING; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; DENDRITES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030805819     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00155-3     Document Type: Article

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