Alpha(2A)-adrenergic receptors are primarily presynaptic heteroreceptors in the C1 area of the rat rostral ventrolateral medulla

Brain Research

Volumn 821, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 200-211

  Milner, Teresa A ^a   Rosin, Diane L ^b   Lee, Amy ^c   Aicher, Sue A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C1 adrenergic neuron; Catecholamine receptor; Catecholaminergic axon; Electron microscopy; Reticulospinal neuron

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALPHA 2A ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; CLONIDINE; PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR;

ADRENERGIC NERVE CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOSOME; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0033528320     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00725-2     Document Type: Article

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