Elsevier

Brain Research

Volume 588, Issue 2, 21 August 1992, Pages 317-323
Brain Research

Short communication
The morphology of GABA-immunoreactive neurons in the accessory olfactory bulb of rats

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Abstract

GABA-immunoreactive (IR) neurons were observed in the accessory olfactory bulb (AOB) of adult female rats. Many somata and dendritic trees of periglomerular-located cells were GABA-IR and the size of their somata was variable. Numerous somata and dendrates in the granule cell layer were IR. These results suggest that a large number of the interneurons in the AOB are GABA-IR.

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    This study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NS 20699 and DC01071-01).

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    We thank Ms. Kimberley S. Gannon for her critical reading of this manuscript and Ms. Mika Takami for her secretarial assistance.

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