Afferent projections to the rat nuclei raphe magnus, raphe pallidus and reticularis gigantocellularis pars α demonstrated by iontophoretic application of choleratoxin (subunit b)

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-21

  Hermann, Dirk M ^a,b,c   Luppi, Pierre Hervé ^b   Peyron, Christelle ^b   Hinckel, Peter ^a   Jouvet, Michel ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

B1 serotonergic area; B3 serotonergic area; Retrograde tract tracing; Rostral ventromedial medulla; Thermoregulatory system

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HABENULA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULA; IONTOPHORESIS; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CHOLERA TOXIN; HYPOTHALAMUS, POSTERIOR; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREOPTIC AREA; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETICULAR FORMATION; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0030835909     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-0618(97)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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