Ultrastructural characterization of the mesostriatal dopamine innervation in mice, including two mouse lines of conditional VGLUT2 knockout in dopamine neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 527-538

  Bérubé Carrière, Noémie ^a   Guay, Ginette ^a   Fortin, Guillaume M ^a   Kullander, Klas ^b   Olson, Lars ^c   Wallén Mackenzie, Åsa ^b   Trudeau, Louis Eric ^a   Descarries, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conditional Vglut2 KO; Diffuse transmission; Electron microscopy; Neostriatum; Nucleus accumbens; Tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; DOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INNERVATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VGLUT2 GENE; WILD TYPE; DENDRITE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE SEGREGATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MESENCEPHALON; MESOSTRIATAL DOPAMINE INNERVATION; PHENOTYPE; SYNAPSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84856879987     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.07992.x     Document Type: Article

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