Cholinergic endings on various neurons containing calcium binding proteins and glutamic acid decarboxylase in the hippocampus of the rat

Beata Ludkiewicz; Sławomir Wójcik; Edyta Spodnik; Beata Domaradzka-Pytel; Janusz Moryś

Vol 59, No 4 (2000)

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Submitted: 2012-02-06

Published online: 2000-08-02

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Cholinergic endings on various neurons containing calcium binding proteins and glutamic acid decarboxylase in the hippocampus of the rat

Beata Ludkiewicz, Sławomir Wójcik, Edyta Spodnik, Beata Domaradzka-Pytel, Janusz Moryś

Folia Morphol 2000;59(4):263-270.

Vol 59, No 4 (2000)

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Submitted: 2012-02-06

Published online: 2000-08-02

Abstract

Immunohistochemical study of the cholinergic innervation of the hippocampal cells containing glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and calcium binding proteins: parvalbumin (PV), calbindin D28k (CB) and calretinin (CR) was conducted on 5 adult rat brains. Analysis of sections with double immunostaining for vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT; the marker of cholinergic cells, fibres and terminals) and respectively either GAD or PV, CB, CR, using confocal laser-scanning microscope shows that the intensive cholinergic innervations receive GAD, PV and CB-positive hippocampal cells. Cholinergic afferentations of the CR-positive neurones are considerably fewer.