A quantitative study of neuronal nitric oxide synthase expression in laminae I-III of the rat spinal dorsal horn

Neuroscience

Volumn 192, Issue , 2011, Pages 708-720

  Sardella, T C P ^a   Polgar E ^a   Watanabe, M ^b   Todd, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; GABA; Inhibitory interneurons; NNOS; PKC

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 80052267884     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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