Cellular Interactions between Axon Terminals Containing Endogenous Opioid Peptides or Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in the Rat Locus Coeruleus and Surrounding Dorsal Pontine Tegmentum

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 466, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 445-456

  Tjoumakaris, S I ^a   Rudoy, C ^a   Peoples, J ^a   Valentino, R J ^b   Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Limbic; Norepinephrine; Opioid; Peptide; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; METENKEPHALIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NORADRENALIN; OPIATE PEPTIDE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LABELING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INNERVATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROPIL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; STRESS; TEGMENTUM;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0142169936     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10893     Document Type: Article

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