Ultrastructural study of the GABAergic and cerebellar input to the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis

Brain Research

Volumn 766, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 289-296

  Verveer, Claudia ^a   Hawkins, Richard K ^a   Ruigrok, Tom J H ^a   De Zeeuw, Chris I ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cat; Cerebellum; Eye movement; Interposed cerebellar nucleus; Lateral cerebellar nucleus; WGA HRP

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CAT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; EYE MOVEMENT; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; EYE MOVEMENTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; RETICULAR FORMATION; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0030923570     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00774-9     Document Type: Article

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