The ultrastructure of perisynaptic glia in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the adult rat: Comparison between single synapses and multisynaptic arrangements

GLIA

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 655-663

  Chounlamountry, Keodavanh ^a   Kessler, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a University of Mediterranée   (France)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Glutamate spillover; Glutamate transporters; Glutamatergic synapse

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; SODIUM GLUCOSE COTRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DENSITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLIA CELL; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79851489018     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.21135     Document Type: Article

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