Parvocellular subparafascicular thalamic nucleus in the rat: Anatomical and functional compartmentalization

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 463, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-131

  Coolen, Lique M ^a,c,d   Veening, Jan G ^b   Petersen, Daniel W ^a   Shipley, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; Intralaminar; Neuropeptides; Sensory; Sexual behavior; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GALANIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN FOS; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EJACULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; FEMALE; GALANIN; GENES, FOS; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0038448952     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10740     Document Type: Article

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