Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide in neuroglia? Immunoelectron microscopic localization in astrocytes of the rat mesencephalon

GLIA

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 229-233

  Paspalas, Constantinos D ^a,c   Halasy, Katalin ^b   Gerics, Balázs ^b   Papadopoulos, Georgios C ^a   Hajós, Ferenc ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Electron microscopy; Immunochistochemistry; Interpeduncular nucleus; VIP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035024786     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.1056     Document Type: Article

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