Dopamine terminals in the rat prefrontal cortex synapse on pyramidal cells that project to the nucleus accumbens

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 11049-11060

  Carr, David B ^a   O'Donnell, Patricio ^a,c   Card, J Patrick ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Infralimbic cortex; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic cortex; Schizophrenia; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN REGION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0033573525     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-24-11049.1999     Document Type: Article

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