Serotonin immunoreactivity in the retinal projecting isthmo-optic nucleus and evidence of brainstem raphe connections in the pigeon

Brain Research

Volumn 958, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 122-129

  Miceli, Dom ^a   Repérant, Jacques ^a,c   Rio, Jean Paul ^b   Hains, Pascal ^a   Medina, Monique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Centrifugal visual system; Immunocytochemistry; Isthmo optic nucleus; Pigeon; Raphe; Serotonin; Transneuronal tracing; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; ISOTHIOCYANIC ACID; RHODAMINE B; SEROTONIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DENDRITES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROPIL; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RETINA; SEROTONIN; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0037146910     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03515-1     Document Type: Article

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