Expression of two forms of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67 and GAD65) during postnatal development of rat somatosensory barrel cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 402, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 62-74

  Kiser, Paul J ^a   Cooper, Nigel G F ^a   Mower, George D ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel field; Cortical development; GABA

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROPIL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; MICROTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0032495006     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981207)402:1<62::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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