Ultrastructural evidence for a role of γ-aminobutyric acid in mediating the effects of corticotropin-releasing factor on the rat dorsal raphe serotonin system

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 482, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-165

  Waselus, Maria ^a   Valentino, Rita J ^b   Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Electron microscopy; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DENDRITE; DEPRESSION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STRESS; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN;

EID: 11244252053     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20360     Document Type: Article

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