Ultrastructural evidence for combined action of noradrenaline and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide upon neurons, astrocytes, and blood vessels of the rat cerebral cortex

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-259

  Paspalas, C D ^a   Papadopoulos, G C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Metabolism; Monoamines; Peptides

Indexed keywords

MONOAMINE; NORADRENALIN; PEPTIDE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL SPREADING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0032006998     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(97)00327-4     Document Type: Article

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