Confocal laser scanning microscopy and ultrastructural study of VGLUT2 thalamic input to striatal projection neurons in rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 521, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1354-1377

  Lei, Wanlong ^a   Deng, Yunping ^b   Liu, Bingbing ^a   Mu, Shuhua ^a   Guley, Natalie M ^b   Wong, Ting ^b   Reiner, Anton ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Intralaminar thalamus; Parafascicular nucleus; Striatum; Thalamostriatal; VGLUT2

Indexed keywords

LEUKOAGGLUTININ; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL SIZE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINE; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84874179049     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23235     Document Type: Article

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