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Immunohistochemical identification of two types of dopamine neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as seen by serial sectioning

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Journal of Neurocytology

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Several neurons around the glomeruli in the rat olfactory bulb contain the enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase as revealed by light and electron microscopic immunohistochemistry. Electron microscopic analysis of serial sections revealed that both superficial tufted cells and small periglomerular neurons were labelled. These results give further support for the view that dopamine neurons in the rat olfactory bulb, from a neuroanatomical point of view, do not represent a homogeneous cell population. Furthermore, taken together with previous results in the literature our findings indicate that, from a transmitter histochemical point of view, neither tufted cells nor periglomerular neurons represent a homogeneous cell population.

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  1. Norbert Halász

    Present address: Section of Neuroanatomy, School of Medicine, Yale University, 06510, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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  1. Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

    Norbert Halász

  2. Department of Histology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    Olle Johansson, Tomas Hökfelt & Åke Ljungdahl

  3. Dpartment of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center, New York, USA

    Menek Goldstein

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Halász, N., Johansson, O., Hökfelt, T. et al. Immunohistochemical identification of two types of dopamine neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as seen by serial sectioning. J Neurocytol 10, 251–259 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01257970

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