Changes in vesicular glutamate transporter 2, vesicular GABA transporter and vesicular acetylcholine transporter labeling of sacrocaudal motoneurons in the spastic rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 407-419

  Kitzman, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal; Immunohistochemistry; Neurotransmitter transporters; Sacrocaudal

Indexed keywords

VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 30444438196     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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