Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Distribution in Relation to Spinal Neurotransmission Pathways

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 467, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 44-59

  Khan, Imran ^a   Osaka, Hitoshi ^a   Stanislaus, Shanaka ^a   Calvo, Rosa M ^a   Deerinck, Tom ^a   Yaksh, Tony L ^a,b   Taylor, Palmer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic neurons; Immunohistochemistry; Neuronal nicotinic receptor subunits; Presynaptic receptors; Primary afferent terminals; Receptor autoradiography; Spinal nicotinic receptor

Indexed keywords

EPIBATIDINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL LABELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RABBIT; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGLIA; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PYRIDINES; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0242300269     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10913     Document Type: Article

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