VGLUTs in Peripheral Neurons and the Spinal Cord: Time for a Review

Table 3

Presence of VGLUTs protein in cranial sensory neurons and their projections (upper part, VGLUTs presence in retrogradely traced cranial sensory neurons; lower part, immunohistochemical detection of VGLUTs in nerve terminals of cranial sensory neurons).

Organ/species	Cranial ganglia	VGLUT1	VGLUT2	VGLUT3
Rat stomach [44, 141]	Nodose	+	+	NE
Rat aortic depressor nerve [141, 142]	Nodose	Not detectable	+	+
Guinea pig trachea [58]	Nodose	+	+	NE
Mouse tongue [143]	Geniculate	+	+	NE
Rat cornea [45]	Trigeminal	+	+	NE
Organ/species	Nerve/terminals	VGLUT1	VGLUT2	VGLUT3
Rat pleura [56]	Laminar endings	+	+	NE
Rat heart [141]	Cardiac vagal afferents	+	Not detectable	Not detectable
Guinea pig trachea [58]	Cough mechanoreceptors	+	+	NE
Mouse tongue [143]	Taste Buds	+	+	NE
Rat masseter muscle [144]	Mesencephalic projections	+	NE	NE
Rat cornea [59]	Trigeminal	+	+	NE
Human teeth [63]	Trigeminal	+	+	NE
Rat lung [145]	Pulmonary neuroepithelial bodies	NE	+	NE

+: present; NE: not evaluated.