Postsynaptic GABAB receptors in supraoptic oxytocin and vasopressin neurons

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 139, Issue , 2002, Pages 121-125

  Stern, J E ^a   Li, Y ^a   Richards, D S ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; Oxytocin; Supraoptic; Synaptic transmission; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN SLICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0035988180     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)39012-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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