Ultrastructural analysis of local collaterals of rat ventral tegmental area neurons: GABA phenotype and synapses onto dopamine and GABA cells

Synapse

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 895-906

  Omelchenko, Natalia ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Glutamate; Intrinsic connections; Ventral midbrain

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARISOPRODOL; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; PEROXIDASE; SILVER; TRACER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LABELING INDEX; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DOPAMINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 70349089308     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20668     Document Type: Article

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