GABAergic and other noncholinergic basal forebrain neurons, together with cholinergic neurons, project to the mesocortex and isocortex in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 383, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 163-177

  Gritti, Ivana ^a   Mainville, Lynda ^b   Mancia, Mauro ^a   Jones, Barbara E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Retrograde transport

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030900074     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970630)383:2<163::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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