Glycine-immunoreactive terminals in the rat trigeminal motor nucleus: Light- and electron-microscopic analysis of their relationships with motoneurones and with GABA-immunoreactive terminals

Brain Research

Volumn 749, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 301-319

  Yang, Hsiu Wen ^a   Ming Yuan, Min ^a   Appenteng, Kwabena ^a   Batten, Trevor F C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

axo axonic; electron microscopy; immunogold; inhibition; parvocellular reticular nucleus; peritrigeminal nucleus; synapse; trigeminal motor nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURONS; RATS; SYNAPSES; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0342506454     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01326-1     Document Type: Article

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