Vesicular glutamate (VGluT), GABA (VGAT), and acetylcholine (VAChT) transporters in basal forebrain axon terminals innervating the lateral hypothalamus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 496, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 453-467

  Henny, Pablo ^a   Jones, Barbara E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BDA; Cholinergic; GABAergic; Gephyrin; Glutamatergic; PSD 95; Rat; Sleep wake states

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DEXTRAN; GEPHYRIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 3; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FOREBRAIN; GIANT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLEEP; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; SYNAPTOGENESIS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BIOTIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; DEXTRANS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STAINING AND LABELING; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 33744488320     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20928     Document Type: Article

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