Light and electron microscopic evidence for topographic and monosynaptic projections from neurons in the ventral medulla to noradrenergic dendrites in the rat locus coeruleus

Brain Research

Volumn 784, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 123-138

  Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a   Colago, Eric E O ^a   Aicher, Sue ^b  

^a Anat Cell Biol   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde transport; Arousal; Excitatory amino acid; Noradrenaline; Nucleus paragigantocellularis

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IONTOPHORESIS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MICROSCOPY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SILVER STAINING; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, EFFERENT; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032536482     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01250-X     Document Type: Article

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