Neurons immunoreactive for vasoactive intestinal polypeptide in the rat primary somatosensory cortex: Morphology and spatial relationship to barrel- related columns

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 420, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-304

  Bayraktar, Tan ^a   Welker, Egbert ^b   Freund, Tamas F ^c   Zilles, Karl ^a   Staiger, Jochen F ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Cortical metabolism; GABA; Modular organization; VIP

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0034621393     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(20000508)420:3<291::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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