Zinc-rich synaptic boutons in human temporal cortex biopsies

Neuroscience

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 429-435

  Franco Pons, N ^a,b   Casanovas Aguilar, C ^a   Arroyo, S ^c   Rumia J ^c   Perez Clausell J ^a   Danscher, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Glutamate receptors; Neocortex; Timm method; Trace elements; Zinc

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TISSUE SECTION;

BIOPSY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; TEMPORAL LOBE; ZINC;

EID: 0034094115     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(00)00153-6     Document Type: Article

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