The effect of electrolytic thalamic lesions on the NADPH-diaphorase activity of neurons of the laterodorsal tegmental and pedunculopontine nuclei in rats

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 227-232

  Nemcova, Veronika ^a   Petrovický, Pavel ^a   Ten Donkelaar, Hans J ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ascending projections; Cholinergic neurons; Mesopontine cholinergic complex; NADPH diaphorase; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CELL DEGENERATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREBRAIN; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; THALAMUS;

EID: 0033979112     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-0618(99)00053-8     Document Type: Article

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