Postnatal development of axosomatic synapses in the rat nucleus tractus solitarius: Dorsal and ventral subnuclei differences

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 450, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-220

  Tashiro, Yasura ^a   Okada, Tomoaki ^a   Kawai, Yoshinori ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axosomatic synapse; Caudal nucleus tractus solitarius; Electron microscope

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 58149354120     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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