Serotonergic axons in monkey prefrontal cerebral cortex synapse predominantly on interneurons as demonstrated by serial section electron microscopy

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 367, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 431-443

  Smiley, John F ^a,b   Goldman Rakic, Patricia S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; monoamines; neocortex; primate; raphe

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; MONKEY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; INTERNEURONS; MACACA MULATTA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEROTONIN; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0029960784     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960408)367:3<431::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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