Selective staining of a population of parvalbumin-containing GABAergic neurons in the rat cerebral cortex by lectins with specific affinity for terminal N-acetylgalactosamine

Brain Res. 1989 Mar 27;483(1):158-63. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(89)90048-6.

Abstract

Lectins with specific affinity for terminal N-acetylgalactosamine, Vicia villosa agglutinin (VVA) and Glycine max agglutinin (soybean agglutinin; SBA), are shown to stain selectively a subpopulation of GABAergic neurons in the rat cerebral cortex. About 90% of VAA- and/or SBA-stained cells are also parvalbumin-immunoreactive, but no VVA-stained cells showed somatostatin-28-like or cholecystokinin-8-like immunoreactivities.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acetylgalactosamine / metabolism*
  • Animals
  • Cerebral Cortex / cytology*
  • Cerebral Cortex / metabolism
  • Galactosamine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Histocytochemistry / methods*
  • Lectins*
  • Male
  • Muscle Proteins / metabolism*
  • Neurons / classification
  • Neurons / metabolism*
  • Parvalbumins / metabolism*
  • Plant Lectins*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Sincalide / metabolism
  • Somatostatin / metabolism
  • Somatostatin-28
  • Soybean Proteins*
  • gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / metabolism*

Substances

  • Lectins
  • Muscle Proteins
  • Parvalbumins
  • Plant Lectins
  • Soybean Proteins
  • Vicia lectins
  • soybean lectin
  • Somatostatin
  • gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
  • Somatostatin-28
  • Galactosamine
  • Acetylgalactosamine
  • Sincalide