Relationship between two types of vesicular glutamate transporters and neurokinin-1 receptor-immunoreactive neurons in the pre-Bötzinger complex of rats: Light and electron microscopic studies

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-48

  Liu, Ying Ying ^a   Wong Riley, Margaret T T ^b   Liu, Jin Ping ^a   Jia, Yi ^a   Liu, Hui Ling ^a   Fujiyama, Fumino ^c   Ju, Gong ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscope; Immunogold silver staining; Respiratory rhythm generation; VGLUT1; VGLUT2

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CELL VACUOLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; MICROSCOPY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SILVER STAINING; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DENDRITES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY CENTER; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0037232341     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02418.x     Document Type: Article

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