Putative inhibitory collicular boutons contact large neurons and their dendrites in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of the rat

Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 433-446

  Alibardi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collicular projections; Dorsal cochlear nucleus; GABA; Glycine; Immunocytochemistry; Rat; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; TRACER; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL SIZE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONJUGATION; DENDRITE; GIANT NERVE CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INJECTION; INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STELLATE CELL; SYNAPSE VESICLE; THICKNESS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EFFERENT NERVE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA; EQUUS CABALLUS; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DENDRITES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS, EFFERENT; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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