Characterisation of axon terminals in the rat dorsal horn that are immunoreactive for serotonin 5-HT3A receptor subunits

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 114-124

  Maxwell, D J ^a   Kerr, R ^a   Rashid, S ^a   Anderson, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Electron microscopy; Immunocytochemistry; Nociception; Primary afferent; Serotonin; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; LECTIN; NEUROTENSIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0037333142     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1339-7     Document Type: Article

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