Evidence for collateral projections to the retrosplenial granular cortex and thalamic reticular nucleus from glutamate and/or aspartate containing neurons of the anterior thalamic nuclei in the rat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-72

  Gonzalo Ruiz, A ^a   Morte, L ^a   Lieberman, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acid immunocytochemistry; Axon collateralization; Fluorescent tracers; Limbic system; Rat; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; ASPARTIC ACID; DIAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLUTAMIC ACID; RHODAMINE; TRUE BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL LABELING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; AXONS; BENZOFURANS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0030787290     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005745     Document Type: Article

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