Mossy cells of the rat dentate gyrus are immunoreactive for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1815-1830

  Freund, Tamás F ^a   Hájos, Norbert ^a   Acsády, László ^a   Görcs, Tamás J ^b   Katona, István ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Commissural associational projection; Glutamate; Neuropeptides; Principal cells; Recurrent excitation

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALRETININ; CHOLECYSTOKININ; COLCHICINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPIL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DENTATE GYRUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030981740     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb00748.x     Document Type: Article

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