Boutons containing vesicular zinc define a subpopulation of synapses with low AMPAR content in rat hippocampus

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 823-829

  Sindreu, Carlos Balet ^a,c   Varoqui, Hélène ^b   Erickson, Jeffrey D ^b   Pérez Clausell, Jeús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Medical Center   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; ZINC;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBEDDING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; ZINC;

EID: 0041672236     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.8.823     Document Type: Article

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