Geniculo-cortical afferents form synaptic contacts with vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) immunoreactive neurons of the rat visual cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 179-182

  Hajos F ^a   Staiger, J F ^b   Halasy, K ^a   Freund, T F ^c   Zilles, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Rat; Synapse; Thalamo cortical system; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030979212     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00399-6     Document Type: Article

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