TABLE 5.
Frequency of CRF-IR Axon Terminals Making Asymmetric or Symmetric Synapses on Cell Bodies or Dendrites Lacking TH-IR in the VTA
Total number of counted synapses (n = 202) 100%
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Postsynaptic targets of CR-IR axon terminals | Asymmetric synapses (n = 87) 43% | Symmetric synapses (n = 115) 57% |
Cell bodies lacking TH-IR [total % of synapses on TH+ cell bodies (25%)] | 1% (n = 3) | 24% (n = 49) |
Dendrites lacking TH-IR [total % of synapses on TH+ cell bodies (75%)] | 42% (n = 84) | 33% (n = 66) |