Relationships between the prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia in the rat: Physiology of the cortico-nigral circuits

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4674-4681

  Maurice, Nicolas ^a   Deniau, Jean Michel ^b   Glowinski, Jacques ^a   Thierry, Anne Marie ^a  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia circuits; In vivo single unit recordings; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Substantia nigra pars reticulata; Subthalamic nucleus; Ventral pallidum; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BICUCULLINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033152383     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-11-04674.1999     Document Type: Article

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