Serotonergic dorsal raphe nucleus projections to the cholinergic and noncholinergic neurons of the pedunculopontine tegmental region: A light and electron microscopic anterograde tracing and immunohistochemical study

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 382, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 302-322

  Steininger, Teresa L ^a   Wainer, Bruce H ^d   Blakely, Randy D ^b   Rye, David B ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotinylated dextran; Brainstem; Double immunohistochemistry; REM sleep; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEXTRAN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TEGMENTUM;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0031009792     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970609)382:3<302::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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