Neurotransmitter systems of commissural interneurons in the lumbar spinal cord of neonatal rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1178, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-72

  Wéber, Ildikó ^a   Veress, Gábor ^a   Szucs, Péter ^a   Antal, Miklós ^a   Birinyi, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

GABA; Glutamate; Glycine; Locomotion; Neural tracing

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65 ANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 2; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TADPOLE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOTIN; CELL COUNT; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; GLYCINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

MAMMALIA; PETROMYZONTIDAE; RATTUS;

EID: 35448993794     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.109     Document Type: Article

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