Putative commissural and collicular axo-somatic terminals on neurons of the rat ventral cochlear nucleus

Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 555-566

  Alibardi, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cochlear nucleus; GABA glycine immunocytochemistry; Inferior colliculus; Rat; Synaptic terminals

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS;

EID: 0034303667     PISSN: 11229497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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