Dual ultrastructural localization of μ-opiate receptors and substance P in the dorsal horn

Synapse

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-20

  Aicher, Sue A ^a   Sharma, Sarita ^a   Cheng, Peter Y ^a   Liu Chen, Lee Yuan ^b   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Electron microscopy; Neuropeptide; Pain; Spinal cord; Trigeminal nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; OPIATE; PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SUBSTANCE P; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS, SPINAL;

EID: 0034009505     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(200004)36:1<12::AID-SYN2>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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