Connections of some auditory-responsive posterior thalamic nuclei putatively involved in activation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in response to audiogenic stress in rats: An anterograde and retrograde tract tracing study combined with Fos expression

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 423, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 474-491

  Campeau, Serge ^a,b   Watson Jr , Stanley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Immunohistochemist ry; Intralaminar; Noise; Preoptic; Subparafascicular

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN DERIVATIVE; FLUOROGOLD; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BIOTIN; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STILBAMIDINES; STRESS; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0034738774     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9861(20000731)423:3<474::AID-CNE10>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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