Morphological and functional study of dwarf neurons in the rat striatum

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3575-3583

  Sancesario, Giuseppe ^a,b   Pisani, Antonio ^a   D'Angelo, Vincenza ^a   Calabresi, Paolo ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biocytin; ChAT neuron; Dye coupling; Electrotonic coupling; Fura 2; Gap junction

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; FURA 2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CELL STRUCTURE; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT DYES; FURA-2; LYSINE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0032464566     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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