Disinhibition of the mediodorsal thalamus induces fos-like immunoreactivity in both pyramidal and GABA-containing neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex of rats, but does not affect prefrontal extracellular GABA levels

Synapse

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 156-165

  Bubser, Michael ^a,c   De Brabander, Johanna M ^a   Timmerman, Wia ^b   Feenstra, Matthijs G P ^a   Erdtsieck Ernste, Erna B H W ^a,d   Rinkens, Alice ^a   Van Uum, Johanna F M ^a   Westerink, Ben H C ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bicuculline; GABA; Immediate early genes; Immunohistochemistry; Mediodorsal thalamus; Microdialysis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PERFUSION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031868841     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199810)30:2<156::AID-SYN5>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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