Efferent projections of reuniens and rhomboid nuclei of the thalamus in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 499, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 768-796

  Vertes, Robert P ^a   Hoover, Walter B ^a   Do Valle, Angela Cristina ^a,b   Sherman, Alexandra ^a   Rodriguez, J J ^a,c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basolateral nucleus of amygdala; Central medial nucleus of thalamus; Hippocampus; Medial prefrontal cortex; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33748470477     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21135     Document Type: Article

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