Dopamine axon varicosities in the prelimbic division of the rat prefrontal cortex exhibit sparse immunoreactivity for the dopamine transporter

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2697-2708

  Sesack, Susan R ^a,c   Hawrylak, Valerie A ^a   Matus, Claudia ^a   Guido, Margaret A ^a   Levey, Allan I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Dopamine; Dopamine transporter; Prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic; Striatum; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0032054478     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-07-02697.1998     Document Type: Article

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