Cellular architecture of the nucleus reuniens thalami and its putative aspartatergic/glutamatergic projection to the hippocampus and medial septum in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1227-1239

  Bokor, Hajnalka ^a   Csáki, Ágnes ^a   Kocsis, Katalin ^a   Kiss, József ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Calbindin; Calretinin; Excitatory amino acids; Midline thalamic nuclei

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CALBINDIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALRETININ; COLLOIDAL GOLD; DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PLANT LECTIN; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; GLUTAMIC ACID; GOLD COLLOID; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

EID: 0036429929     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02189.x     Document Type: Article

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