Diffuse and specific tectopulvinar terminals in the tree shrew: Synapses, synapsins, and synaptic potentials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wei, Haiyang ^a   Masterson, Sean P ^a   Petry, Heywood M ^b   Bickford, Martha E ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNAPSIN I; SYNAPSIN II; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; SYNAPSIN; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PULVINAR; SCANDENTIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

TUPAIIDAE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GENICULATE BODIES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PULVINAR; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSES; SYNAPSINS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; TUPAIA; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 80051691887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023781     Document Type: Article

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