Organization of the dopaminergic innervation of forebrain areas relevant to learning: A combined immunohistochemical/retrograde tracing study in the domestic chick

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-27

  Metzger, Martin ^a   Jiang, Shucui ^a   Wang, Jizhong ^a   Braun, Katharina ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

confocal laser scanning microscopy; mesolimbocortical system; mesostriatal system; prefrontal cortex; thalamus

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; FLUOROGOLD; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; LEARNING; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHICKENS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROSENCEPHALON; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0029852959     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961202)376:1<1::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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