Orbitomedial prefrontal cortical projections to distinct longitudinal columns of the periaqueductal gray in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 422, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 556-578

  Floyd, Nicole S ^a   Price, Joseph L ^b   Ferry, Amon T ^b   Keay, Kevin A ^a,c   Bandler, Richard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arterial pressure; Emotion; Insula; Pain; Prefrontal cortex; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0034632183     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9861(20000710)422:4<556::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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