The expression of vesicular glutamate transporters VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 in neurochemically defined axonal populations in the rat spinal cord with emphasis on the dorsal horn

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-27

  Todd, A J ^a   Hughes, D I ^a   Polgar E ^a   Nagy, G G ^a   Mackie, M ^a   Ottersen, O P ^b   Maxwell, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

AMPA; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Excitatory interneuron; Neuropeptide; Primary afferent

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; ENKEPHALIN; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; LECTIN; NEUROTENSIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLERA TOXIN; ENKEPHALINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERNEURONS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROTENSIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SOMATOSTATIN; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANCE P; SYNAPSES; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0037243740     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02406.x     Document Type: Article

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