Immunoreactivity for multiple GABA transporters (GAT-1, GAT-2, GAT-3) in the gerbil pineal gland

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-120

  Redecker, Peter ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Glial cells; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Meriones unguiculatus; Multiple labeling; Paracrine communication; Pinealocytes; Synaptic like microvesicles

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GERBIL; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; PINEAL GLAND;

EID: 0033532239     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00268-2     Document Type: Article

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