Age-related changes in the release and uptake activity of presynaptic axon terminals of rat locus coeruleus neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 212-214

  Shirokawa, Tetsuya ^a   Ishida, Yoshiyuki ^a   Isobe, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Autoreceptor; Axon terminal; Locus coeruleus; Noradrenaline transporter; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; NISOXETINE; NORADRENALIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0037865199     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00463-4     Document Type: Article

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