Parvalbumin-immunoreactive axon terminals in macaque monkey and human prefrontal cortex: Laminar, regional, and target specificity of type I and type II synapses

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 408, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-22

  Melchitzky, Darlene S ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a   Lewis, David A ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric synapse; Mediodorsal thalamic nucleus; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PARVALBUMINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSES; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0033599967     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990524)408:1<11::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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