Substance P and enkephalin immunoreactivities in axonal boutons presynaptic to physiologically identified dorsal horn neurons. An ultrastructural multiple-labelling study in the cat

Neuroscience

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 793-811

  Ma, W ^a   Ribeiro Da Silva, A ^a   De Koninck, Y ^a   Radhakrishnan, V ^a   Cuello, A C ^a   Henry, J L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; immunocytochemistry; intracellular recording; nociception; opioid peptide; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ENKEPHALIN; OPIATE PEPTIDE; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 0031550618     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00510-6     Document Type: Article

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