Vesicular Glutamate Transporters in the Spinal Cord, with Special Reference to Sensory Primary Afferent Synapses

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 472, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 257-280

  Alvarez, Francisco J ^a   Villalba, Rosa M ^a   Zerda, Ricardo ^a   Schneider, Stephen P ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CGRP; Confocal microscopy; Electron microscopy; IB4; Mechanoreceptors; Nociceptors; Pain; Proprioceptors

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; COLLOIDAL GOLD; FETAL ANTIGEN; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GSA IB4 ANTIGEN; ISOPROTEIN; LECTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; PARVALBUMIN; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LARGE DENSE CORE VESICLE; LECTIN BINDING; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; RHIZOTOMY; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN RECEPTOR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LECTINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PARVALBUMINS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHIZOTOMY; SECRETORY VESICLES; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 1842483222     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20012     Document Type: Article

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