Postnatal development of amygdaloid projections to the prefrontal cortex in the rat studied with retrograde and anterograde tracers

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-96

  Verwer, R W H ^a   Van Vulpen, E H S ^a,b   Van Uum, J F M ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

basolateral amygdala; fast blue; immunocytochemistry; Phaseolus

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; FLUORESCENT DYE; LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; AMIDINES; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029830395     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961202)376:1<75::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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