Ultrastructural localization and comparative distribution of nitric oxide synthase and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in the shell of the rat nucleus accumbens

Brain Research

Volumn 747, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 259-272

  Gracy, K Noelle ^a   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

dopamine; glutamate; locomotion; LTP; nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GLIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DENDRITES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 0031039384     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01249-8     Document Type: Article

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