GABAergic synapses in hippocampus exocytose aspartate on to NMDA receptors: Quantitative immunogold evidence for co-transmission

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 156-165

  Gundersen, Vidar ^a,b   Holten, Alexander Talgøy ^a   Storm Mathisen, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EPILEPSY; EXOCYTOSIS; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; DENTATE GYRUS; EXOCYTOSIS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 2342451337     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2004.01.017     Document Type: Article

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