Relationship of calcium-binding protein containing neurons and projection neurons in the rat basolateral amygdala

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-94

  Moryś, Janusz ^a,b   Berdel, Bozena ^a   Kowiański, Przemysław ^a   Majak, Katarzyna ^a   Tarnawski, Michał ^b   Wisniewski, Henryk M ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral nucleus of amygdala; Calcium binding proteins; Cerebral cortex; Confocal microscopy; Retrograde transport

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; FLUOROGOLD; PARVALBUMIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; PARVALBUMINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033534509     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00908-2     Document Type: Article

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