Ultrastructural subtypes of glutamate-immunoreactive terminals on rat trigeminal motoneurones and their relationships with GABA-immunoreactive terminals

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-116

  Yang, Hsiu Wen ^a   Appenteng, Kwabena ^a   Batten, Trevor F C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axo axonic synaptic contacts; Electron microscopy; Immunogold; Rat; Synapse; Trigeminal motor nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE ENDINGS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0030942426     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005627     Document Type: Article

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