Identification of catecholaminergic inputs to and outputs from aromatase-containing brain areas of the Japanese quail by tract tracing combined with tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 382, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 401-428

  Balthazart, Jacques ^a   Absil, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Dopamine; Norepinephrine; Nucleus striae terminalis; Preoptic area

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CATECHOLAMINE; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; LATEX; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; CATECHOLAMINES; CHOLERA TOXIN; COTURNIX; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSPHERES; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0030952490     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970609)382:3<401::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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