Glutamate and aspartate immunoreactive neurons of the rat basolateral amygdala: Colocalization of excitatory amino acids and projections to the limbic circuit

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 365, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 367-379

  McDonald, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

immunohistochemistry; mediodorsal thalamic nucleus; nucleus accumbens; prefrontal cortex; retrograde tracing

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ASPARTIC ACID; CORPUS STRIATUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0030059244     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960212)365:3<367::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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