Ultrastructure of ascending cholinergic terminals in the anteroventral thalamic nucleus of the rat: A comparison with the mammillothalamic terminals

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 473-483

  Oda, Satoko ^a   Kuroda, Masaru ^a   Kakuta, Sachiko ^a   Tanihata, Sachiko ^a   Ishikawa, Youichi ^a   Kishi, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunocytochemistry; Limbic thalamus; Rat; VAChT

Indexed keywords

MARKER; TRACER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DENDRITE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DENDRITES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0037441582     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(02)00964-4     Document Type: Article

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