Cholinergic innervation of the song control nuclei by the ventral paleostriatum in the zebra finch: A double-labeling study with retrograde fluorescent tracers and choline acetyltransferase immunohistochemistry

Brain Research

Volumn 763, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 239-246

  Li, Rui ^a,c   Sakaguchi, Hironobu ^a,b  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Precursory Res Embryonic Sci T   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Fluoro red; Forebrain; Retrograde tracer; Song control nucleus; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BENZOATES; BIRDS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROSENCEPHALON; STILBAMIDINES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030858353     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00417-4     Document Type: Article

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