Glycine- and GABA-immunoreactive nerve terminals apposed to α-motoneurons during postnatal development in kittens: A quantitative study using the disector

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-240

  Simon, Magda ^a   Horcholle Bossavit, Ginette ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GABA and glycine colocalization; Immunohistochemistry; Light microscopy; Lumbar motoneurons; Stereology

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MICROTOMY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032719532     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050893     Document Type: Article

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