Cholinergic innervation of pyramidal cells and parvalbumin-immunoreactive interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 519, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 790-805

  Muller, Jay F ^a   Mascagni, Franco ^a   McDonald, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Calcium calmodulin dependent protein kinase II; Electron microscopy; Immunocytochemistry; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; DIAMINOBENZIDINE; PARVALBUMIN; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CELL MOTION; CELL POPULATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PARVALBUMINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 78751522905     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22550     Document Type: Article

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