Schizophrenia and anteroventral thalamic nucleus: Selective decrease of parvalbumin-immunoreactive thalamocortical projection neurons

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-10

  Danos, Peter ^a   Baumann, Bruno ^a   Bernstein, Hans Gert ^a   Franz, Michael ^a   Stauch, Renate ^a   Northoff, Georg ^a   Krell, Dieter ^a   Falkai, Peter ^b   Bogerts, Bernhard ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium binding proteins; Limbic thalamus; Post mortem studies; Thalamic projecting neurons

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; PARVALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032502615     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(97)00071-1     Document Type: Article

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