Cholinergic input from the ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body to cochlear root neurons in rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 506, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 452-468

  Gómez Nieto, Ricardo ^a,b,c   Rubio, María E ^c   López, Dolores E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve nucleus; Biotinylated dextran amine; FluoroGold; Inferior colliculus; Prepulse inhibition; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DEXTRAN; FLUORESCEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SYNAPSE; TRAPEZOID BODY VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AXONS; BIOTIN; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DENDRITES; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 38049054738     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21554     Document Type: Article

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