Prefrontal Cortical Projections to the Rat Dorsal Raphe Nucleus: Ultrastructural Features and Associations with Serotonin and γ-Aminobutyric Acid Neurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 468, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 518-529

  Jankowski, Michael P ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cortex; Depression; Infralimbic; Prelimbic; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BIOTIN; SILVER; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL LABELING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DEPRESSION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOTIN; DENDRITES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEXTRANS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0346786568     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10976     Document Type: Article

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