Ultrastructural evidence for prominent postsynaptic localization of α(2C)-adrenergic receptors in catecholaminergic dendrites in the rat nucleus locus coeruleus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 394, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 218-229

  Lee, Amy ^a   Rosin, Diane L ^b   Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoreceptors; Immunoelectron microscopy; Norepinephrine; Opiate withdrawal; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2C ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CELL MEMBRANE; DENDRITE; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CATECHOLAMINES; DENDRITES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MYELIN SHEATH; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032482164     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980504)394:2<218::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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