Morphological analysis of the mormyrid cerebellum using immunohistochemistry, with emphasis on the unusual neuronal organization of the valvula

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 510, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 396-421

  Meek, Johannes ^a   Yang, Jianji Y ^a   Han, Victor Z ^a   Bell, Curtis C ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climbing fiber; Efferent cerebellar neuron; Eurydendroid cell; Gnathonemus petersii; Molecular layer; Purkinje cell; Stellate cell; Unipolar brush cell; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER 1; CALBINDIN; CALCINEURIN; GEPHYRIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE 3 KINASE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1ALPHA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 2; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 3; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CLIMBING FIBER; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FISH; GNATHONEMUS PETERSII; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; STELLATE CELL;

ANIMALS; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CEREBELLUM; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTRIC FISH; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE RECEPTORS; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 51749083985     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21809     Document Type: Article

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