Glutamate, but not aspartate, is enriched in trigeminothalamic tract terminals and associated with their synaptic vesicles in the rat nucleus submedius

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 152-161

  Persson, Stefan ^a   Broman, Jouas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; Immunogold; Pain; Somatosensory; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE TRACT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 3142656657     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-1837-x     Document Type: Article

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