Presence of μ-opioid receptors in targets of efferent projections from the central nucleus of the amygdala to the nucleus of the solitary tract

Synapse

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-152

  Pickel, Virginia M ^a   Colago, Eric E O ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid; Cardiorespiratory function; Disinhibition; Electron microscopic immunocytochemistry; Feeding; Opiate; Striatum

Indexed keywords

MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEART FUNCTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; BIOTIN; DEXTRANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS, EFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033566349     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199908)33:2<141::AID-SYN4>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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