Cuneothalamic relay neurons are postsynaptic to glycine-immunoreactive terminals in the rat cuneate nucleus

Synapse

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 222-231

  Lue, June Horng ^a   Shieh, Jeng Yung ^a   Wen, Chen Yuan ^a   Chen, Seu Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Immunogold; Immunoperoxidase; Synaptic organization; Synaptic ratio; WGA HRP

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; PEROXIDASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; GLYCINE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0034285032     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2396(20000901)37:3<222::AID-SYN6>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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