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Colocalization of GABA and glycine in the rat dorsal column nuclei
A Popratiloff1, J G Valtschanoff, A Rustioni
1Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599, USA.
Brain Research
|January 15, 1996
Abstract:
About half the neurons in the rat dorsal column nuclei were immunopositive for glycine or for GABA; these were smaller than immunonegative neurons. In double-stained material, 29% of stained neurons were immunopositive for GABA only, and 42% for both antigens. The results resemble those reported for spinal cord laminae that receive fast-conducting primary afferents, and suggest that glycine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the dorsal column nuclei.