A GABAergic component in the commissure of the inferior colliculus in rat

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1611-1614

  Hernández, Olga ^a,b   Rees, Adrian ^c   Malmierca, Manuel S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amino n butyric acid; Auditory midbrain; Biotinylated dextran amine; Double labelling; Immunocytochemistry; Inhibition

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BIOTIN; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULI; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 33749012977     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000236857.70715.be     Document Type: Article

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