Modulatory role of catecholamines in the transsynaptic expression of c-fos in the rat medial prefrontal cortex induced by disinhibition of the mediodorsal thalamus: A study employing microdialysis and immunohistochemistry

Brain Research

Volumn 749, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 214-225

  Bubser, Michael ^a,b   Feenstra, Matthijs G P ^a   Erdtsieck Ernste, Erna B H W ^a,c   Botterblom, Margriet H A ^a   Van Hannie, Hannie F M ^a   Pool, Chris W ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bicuculline; dopamine; immediate early genes; mediodorsal thalamic nucleus; motor activity; noradrenaline; paraventricular thalamic nucleus; ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; CATECHOLAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; DOPAMINE; GENES, FOS; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXIDOPAMINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEROTONIN; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; THALAMIC NUCLEI; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031042714     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01170-5     Document Type: Article

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