Vesicular glutamate transporter 3 immunoreactivity is present in cholinergic basal forebrain neurons projecting to the basolateral amygdala in rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 498, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 690-711

  Poulin, Amanda Nickerson ^a   Guerci, Aline ^b,c   El Mestikawy, Salah ^c   Semba, Kazue ^a,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Confocal microscopy; Glutamate; Immunohistochemistry; Retrograde tracing; VGLUT3

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 3;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; FOREBRAIN; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 33748470136     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21081     Document Type: Article

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