Dendritic spinules in rat nigral neurons revealed by acetycholinesterase immunocytochemistry and serial sections of the dendritic spine heads

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 77-81

  Ishii, Katsuyoshi ^a,c   Hayashida, Tsuyako ^a   Hashikawa, Tsutomu ^a   Tsuji, Shigeru ^b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetycholinesterase; Electron microscopy; Glial process; Nigral dendrite; Spine head; Spinule

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROPIL; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2642529681     PISSN: 02398508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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