An excitatory amino acid projection from ventromedial hypothalamus to periaqueductal gray in the rat: Autoradiographic and electrophysiological evidence

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 205-211

  Beart, P M ^a   Nicolopoulos, L S ^b   West, D C ^b   Headley, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Dept Anat Sch Med Sci U   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 Amino 5 phosphonopentanoate; Aspartate transmitter; d 3H Aspartate; Excitatory amino acid; Glutamate transmitter; Kynurenate; Microelectrophoresis; N Methyl d aspartic acid; Periaqueductal gray; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; KYNURENIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; RADIOISOTOPE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID H 3; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID H 3; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; RAT; ZONA INCERTA;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL; ASPARTIC ACID; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; KAINIC ACID; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTION TIME; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VALINE; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0023838615     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(88)90352-7     Document Type: Article

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