Phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase-immunoreactive nerve terminals afferent to the mouse substantia nigra

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-44

  Nagatsu, Ikuko ^a   Ikemoto, Keiko ^a   Takeuchi, Terumi ^a   Arai, Ryohachi ^a   Karasawa, Nobuyuki ^a   Fujii, Tetsuya ^b   Nagatsu, Toshiharu ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Aichi Prefectural College of Nursing and Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colocalization; GTP Cyclohydrolase I; Immunohistochemistry; Mouse; Phenylethanolamine N methyltransferase; Substantia nigra; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Ventrolateral medulla oblongata

Indexed keywords

PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; AROMATIC-L-AMINO-ACID DECARBOXYLASES; DOPAMINE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; RETICULAR FORMATION; SEROTONIN; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032571170     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00172-4     Document Type: Article

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