Metabotropic glutamate receptors 2 and 3 expressed by astrocytes in rat ventrobasal thalamus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-98

  Mineff, E ^a   Valtschanoff, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; GABA transporters; Gila; Inhibition; Reticular nucleus; Sensory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLIA; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0033618594     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00484-X     Document Type: Article

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