Determination of acetylcholine and dopamine content in thalamus and striatum after excitotoxic lesions of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-48

  Jenkins, Trisha A ^a   Latimer, Mary P ^a   Alderson, Helen L ^a   Winn, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Caudate putamen; Dopamine; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DOPAMINE; DOWN-REGULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; THALAMUS;

EID: 0037192421     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00084-8     Document Type: Article

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