The serotonin innervation of the basal forebrain shows a transient phase during development

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-52

  Dinopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Dori, Ioanna ^a   Parnavelas, John G ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

basal forebrain nuclei; growth; immunocytochemistry; serotonergic innervation; synapse

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031058720     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(96)00198-8     Document Type: Article

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