An anterograde and retrograde tract-tracing study on the projections from the thalamic gustatory area in the rat: Distribution of neurons projecting to the insular cortex and amygdaloid complex

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 297-309

  Nakashima, Mitsuo ^a   Uemura, Masanori ^a   Yasui, Kinya ^a   Ozaki, Hiroki S ^a   Tabata, Shoji ^a   Taen, Akira ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdaloid complex; Fundus striati; Insular cortex; Parvicellular part of the posteromedial ventral thalamic nucleus; Taste; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FLUOROGOLD; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; TRACER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; INSULA; MALE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BIOTIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEXTRANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TASTE; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISCERAL AFFERENTS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0034029559     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(99)00129-7     Document Type: Article

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