Synaptic organization of tooth pulp afferent terminals in the rat trigeminal sensory nuclei

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 463, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-24

  Bae, Yong Chul ^a   Kim, Jong Pil ^a   Choi, Byung Ju ^a   Park, Kuk Pil ^a   Choi, Min Ki ^a   Moritani, Masayuki ^b   Yoshida, Atsushi ^b   Shigenaga, Yoshio ^a,b  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HRP; Immunogold; Nociceptive; Synapse; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AGGLUTININ; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOOTH PULP; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; WHEAT GERM;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DENTAL PULP; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; TOOTH; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0038505864     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10741     Document Type: Article

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