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Transiently increased colocalization of vesicular glutamate transporters 1 and 2 at single axon terminals during postnatal development of mouse neocortex: a quantitative analysis with correlation coefficient

  1. Kouichi Nakamura1,2,
  2. Akiya Watakabe3,
  3. Hiroyuki Hioki1,
  4. Fumino Fujiyama1,
  5. Yasuyo Tanaka1,
  6. Tetsuo Yamamori3,
  7. Takeshi Kaneko1,2

Article first published online: 26 AUG 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06449.x

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European Journal of Neuroscience

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volume 28, Issue 5, pages 1032–1046, September 2008

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Nakamura, K., Watakabe, A., Hioki, H., Fujiyama, F., Tanaka, Y., Yamamori, T. and Kaneko, T. (2008), Transiently increased colocalization of vesicular glutamate transporters 1 and 2 at single axon terminals during postnatal development of mouse neocortex: a quantitative analysis with correlation coefficient. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28: 1032–1046. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06449.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

  2. 2

    Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan

  3. 3

    Division of Brain Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki 444–8585, Japan

*Professor T. Kaneko, 1Department of Morphological Brain Science, as above. E-mail: kaneko@mbs.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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  1. Issue published online: 26 AUG 2008
  2. Article first published online: 26 AUG 2008
  3. Received 12 March 2007, revised 2 August 2007, accepted 4 September 2007
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Transiently increased colocalization of vesicular glutamate transporters 1 and 2 at single axon terminals during postnatal development of mouse neocortex: a quantitative analysis with correlation coefficient

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