Morphometric characterization of synapses in the primate prefrontal cortex formed by afferents from the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 148-154

  Negyessy, L ^a,b   Goldman Rakic, P S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Parvalbumin; Synaptic morphology; Thalamocortical; Tract tracing

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACACA; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DENDRITES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARVALBUMINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 23744490729     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2237-6     Document Type: Article

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