Essential components for a glutamatergic synapse between Merkel cell and nerve terminal in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 362, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 196-199

  Hitchcock, Ian S ^a   Genever, Paul G ^a   Cahusac, Peter M B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Immunohistochemistry; Merkel cell; Synaptogyrin; Syntaxin 6; Vesicular glutamate transporter 1; Vesicular glutamate transporter 2

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; ISOPROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SYNAPTOGYRIN; SYNTAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR FOLLICLE; MERKEL CELL; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

EID: 2442625209     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.02.071     Document Type: Article

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