Ventrally located commissural neurons express the GABAergic phenotype in developing rat spinal cord

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 409, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 285-298

  Phelps, Patricia E ^a   Alijani, Ata ^a   Tran, Tracy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal outgrowth; GABA; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Immunocytochemistry; TAG 1

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AXONS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033612531     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990628)409:2<285::AID-CNE9>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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