Projections from the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus to the rat prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens shell: Ultrastructural characteristics and spatial relationships with dopamine afferents

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 459, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 142-155

  Pinto, Aline ^a   Jankowski, Michael ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Limbic; Modulation; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

AMINE; DEXTRAN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037471431     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10596     Document Type: Article

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