Ageing reduces the number of vesicular glutamate transporter 2 containing immunoreactive inputs to identified rat pelvic motoneurons

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 506-516

  Ranson, R N ^a   Santer, R M ^a   Watson, A H D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Spinal cord; Synapse; VGLUT1; VGLUT2

Indexed keywords

VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

AGING; ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; PELVIS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34248575478     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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