Evidence for the coexistence of glutamate decarboxylase and Met-enkephalin immunoreactivities in axon terminals of rat ventral pallidum.
Evidence for the coexistence of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) and Met-enkephalin (Met-Enk) in axon terminals of ventral pallidum was demonstrated by colocalization of anti-GAD and anti-Met-Enk immunoreactivities in alternate adjacent 1 micron serial sections. Conventional electron microscopy of immunostained ventral pallidum confirmed that the immunoreactive structures were boutons which made predominantly symmetrical synapses on ventral pallidal cell bodies and dendrites.
D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000378:metabolism; D004744:Enkephalin, Methionine / Q000378:metabolism*; D005917:Globus Pallidus / Q000378:metabolism*; D005968:Glutamate Decarboxylase / Q000378:metabolism*; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
D004744:Enkephalin, Methionine; D005968:Glutamate Decarboxylase