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Vestibulospinal pathway in rabbit includes GABA-synthesizing neurons
W W Blessing1, S C Hedger, W H Oertel
1Department of Medicine, Flinders University of South Australia.
Neuroscience Letters
|September 23, 1987
Abstract:
When Fast blue is injected into the rabbit spinal cord it is retrogradely transported into nerve cell bodies located in the medial and the descending vestibular nuclei. Approximately 50% of the Fast blue-positive cells also contain glutamic acid decarboxylase-like immunoreactivity. These neurons presumably synthesize gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and the rabbit vestibulospinal pathway therefore contains a substantial inhibitory component.