Levels of amino acid neurotransmitters during neurogenesis and in histotypic cultures of mouse spinal cord

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-70

  Miranda Contreras, Leticia ^a   Benítez Díaz, Pedro ^a   Peña Contreras, Zulma ^a   Virginia Mendoza Briceño, Rosa ^a   Palacios Prü, Ernesto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Amino acid neurotransmitters; Histotypic cultures; Neurogenesis; Spinal cord, mouse

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; TAURINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROTOXINS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; TAURINE;

EID: 0036972122     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000064946     Document Type: Article

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