Subpopulations of Rat Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons Express Active Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 194-202

  Tata, Ada Maria ^a   De Stefano, M Egle ^a   Tomassy, Giulio Srubek ^a   Vilaró, M Teresa ^b   Levey, Allan I ^c   Biagioni, Stefano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine release; Cholinergic vesicles; Neuronal differentiation; Sensory neurons

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRITIUM; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL SIZE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MYELINATED NERVE; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SHORT SURVEY; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; TRANSPORT VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL SIZE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; TRANSPORT VESICLES; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0347990337     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10855     Document Type: Short Survey

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