Glycine receptor (gephyrin) immunoreactivity is present on cholinergic neurons in the dorsal vagal complex

Neuroscience

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 489-497

  Cassell, M D ^b   Yi, H ^a   Talman, W T ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Axon; Choline acetyltransferase; Co localization; Dendrite; Nucleus tractus solitarii

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DENDRITES; GLYCINE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0032754531     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00454-6     Document Type: Article

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