Fine structures of nerve fibers with corticotropin-releasing factor-like immunoreactivity in the rat lateral septum |
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Authors: | M Sakanaka S Magari T Shibasaki |
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Institution: | Department of Anatomy, Osaka Medical College, Japan. |
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Abstract: | The fine structures of nerve fibers with corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)-like immunoreactivity in the rat lateral septum were investigated by means preembedding immunoelectron microscopy. A number of CRF axon terminals formed synapses with cell bodies of non-immunoreactive septal neurons. They occasionally had broad terminal bulges whose subregions showed little or no immunoreactivity for CRF. CRF axon terminals were also in synaptic contact with non-immunoreactive dendrites or dendritic spines. Some dendrites with CRF were postsynaptic to non-immunoreactive axon terminals. |
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