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Histochemical demonstration of GABA-like immunoreactivity in cobalt labeled neuron individuals in the insect olfactory pathway

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Individual olfactory neurons in the antennal lobes of Periplaneta americana were investigated for their morphological and neurochemical properties by means of intracellular cobalt injection and indirect peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunohistochemistry. GABA-like immunoreactivity was demonstrated in many local interneurons but not in uniglomerular projection neurons.

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Distler, P. Histochemical demonstration of GABA-like immunoreactivity in cobalt labeled neuron individuals in the insect olfactory pathway. Histochemistry 91, 245–249 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00490139

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