Galanin-immunoreactive synaptic terminals on basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 383, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 82-93

  Henderson, Z ^a   Morris, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Electron microscopy; Neuropeptides; Nucleus basalis; Nucleus of the diagonal band

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GALANIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GALANIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030912340     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970623)383:1<82::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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