Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Input to Autonomic Circuits Identified by Retrograde Transsynaptic Transport of Pseudorabies Virus from the Eye

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 471, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 298-313

  Smeraski, Cynthia A ^a   Sollars, Patricia J ^a   Ogilvie, Malcolm D ^a   Enquist, Lynn W ^b   Pickard, Gary E ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliary ganglion; Circadian rhythm; Edinger Westphal nucleus; Paraventricular nucleus; Pretectum; Pterygopalatine ganglion; Superior salivatory nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CILIARY GANGLION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; EYE INFECTION; HAMSTER; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLIONECTOMY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; EYE; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; MALE; NERVE NET; PSEUDORABIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SWINE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 1442300290     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20030     Document Type: Article

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