Exocytotic release from neuronal cell bodies, dendrites and nerve terminals in sympathetic ganglia of the rat, and its differential regulation

Neuroscience

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 861-891

  Zaidi, Z F ^a   Matthews, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exocytosis; Muscarinic receptors; Nicotinic receptors; Non synaptic; Sympathetic neurons; Tannic acid

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; OXOTREMORINE; TANNIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CERVICAL GANGLION; DENDRITIC CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE; CARBACHOL; CELL MEMBRANE; DENDRITES; EXOCYTOSIS; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURONS; NICOTINE; OXOTREMORINE; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PIRENZEPINE; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030831173     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00664-1     Document Type: Article

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