GABAergic Innervation of Serotonergic Neurons in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus of the Rat Studied by Electron Microscopy Double Immunostaining

Overview

Journal Brain Res Bull

Specialty Neurology

Date 1992 Dec 1

PMID 1473026

Citations 36

Authors

Q P Wang

H Ochiai

Y Nakai

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Abstract

A double immunocytochemical method combining the preembedding PAP technique and the postembedding immunogold technique was used to examine interactions between GABAergic and serotonergic neurons in the same tissue sections of the dorsal raphe nucleus of the rat. A large number of immunogold stained GABAergic axon terminals were found to be presynaptic to strongly PAP immunostained serotonergic perikarya and dendrites. The types of synapses were mostly symmetrical although a few asymmetrical ones were also found. No axo-axonic synapse between the GABAergic axon terminals and the serotonergic neuronal profiles was found. These results suggest that GABAergic neurons could modulate serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus through synaptic relations.

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