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SUBMITTER: Boulland JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3202896 | biostudies-other | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Boulland Jean-Luc JL Jenstad Monica M Boekel Amber J AJ Wouterlood Floris G FG Edwards Robert H RH Storm-Mathisen Jon J Chaudhry Farrukh A FA
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20080522 1
Vesicular glutamate transporters (VGLUTs) 1 and 2 are expressed by neurons generally accepted to release glutamate as a neurotransmitter, whereas VGLUT3 appears in populations usually associated with a different classical transmitter. We now demonstrate VGLUT2 as well as the vesicular GABA transporter (VGAT) in a subset of presynaptic terminals in the dentate gyrus of the rat hippocampal formation. The terminals are distributed in a characteristic band overlapping with the outer part of the gran ...[more]