Morphological features and electrophysiological properties of serotonergic and non-serotonergic projection neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus - An intracellular recording and labeling study in rat brain slices

Brain Research

Volumn 900, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 110-118

  Li, Yun Qing ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^b   Mizuno, Noboru ^c  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsal raphe nucleus; Immunohistochemistry; Intracellular recording; Intracellular staining; Rat; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; CELL LABELING; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; FLUORESCENT DYES; LYSINE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035805205     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(01)02272-7     Document Type: Article

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