Quantitative immunoelectron microscopic colocalization of GABA and enkephalin in the ventrocaudal periaqueductal gray of the rat

Synapse

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 216-228

  Renno, Waleed M ^a,c   Mahmoud, M S W ^a   Hamdi, Anwar ^a   Beitz, Alvin J ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Central gray; Electron microscopy; Enkephalin; GABA; Pain

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ENKEPHALIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ENKEPHALINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033103815     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(19990301)31:3<216::AID-SYN7>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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