TABLE 4.
Frequency of CRF-IR Axon Terminals Making Asymmetric or Symmetric Synapses on TH-IR Cell Bodies or Dendrites in the VTA
Total number of counted synapses (n = 148) 100%
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Postsynaptic targets of CRF-IR axon terminals | Asymmetric synapses (n = 123) 83% | Symmetric synapses (n = 25) 17% |
TH-IR cell bodies [total % of synapses on TH+ cell bodies (7%)] | 5% (n = 7) | 2% (n = 3) |
TH-IR dendrites [total % of synapses on TH+ dendrites (93%)] | 78% (n = 116) | 15% (n = 22) |