Single midline thalamic neurons projecting to both the ventral striatum and the prefrontal cortex in the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 635-649

  Otake, K ^a   Nakamura, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affective behaviour; Branching projection; Infralimbic cortex; Nucleus accumbens; Paraventricular thalamic nucleus; Retrograde double labelling

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; TRACER;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMIC NUCLEI; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032101187     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00062-1     Document Type: Article

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