Nigrothalamic projections and nigrothalamocortical pathway to the medial agranular cortex in the rat: Single- and double-labeling light and electron microscopic studies

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 391, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 506-525

  Sakai, Sharleen T ^a,b   Grofova, Irena ^a   Bruce, Kathy ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin subunit B; Frontal eye field; Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin; Substantia nigra; Ventral thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; INJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPSES; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0032557028     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980222)391:4<506::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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