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Brain Research

Volume 525, Issue 1, 13 August 1990, Pages 140-143
Brain Research

Coexistence of parvalbumin and glycine in the rat brainstem

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Abstract

The coexistence of glycine- and PV-immunoreactivities was studied immunocytochemically in the nuclei of the superior olive, trapezoid body, cochlea and lateral lemniscus. All of the PV-immunoreactive neurons in the nuclei of the superior olive and trapezoid body were immunoreactive to glycine but not to GABA. In the dorsal cochlear nucleus, PV-positive neurons were sometimes immunoreactive to glycine. In the ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus, PV-positive cells were immunoreactive neither to glycine nor to GABA. Consequently, it was concluded that PV-immunoreactivity was distributed not only in the GABAergic neurons, but also in the glycinergic neurons and possibly in wider neuronal populations.

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    A part of this research was supported by Grants (No. 60-A and 63-A) from the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP) of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and also by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (No. 61570480), Japan.

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