The metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype mGluR 2/3 is located at extrasynaptic loci in rat spinal dorsal horn synapses

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 236-238

  Azkue, Jon Jatsu ^a   Mateos, José María ^a   Elezgarai, Izaskun ^a   Benítez, Rocío ^a   Osorio, Alexandra ^a   Díez, Javier ^a   Bilbao, Aurora ^a   Bidaurrazaga, Angel ^a   Grandes, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; Immunocytochemistry; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SHORT SURVEY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0034733789     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01189-7     Document Type: Article

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