A light and electron microscopic analysis of the convergent insular cortical and amygdaloid projections to the posterior lateral hypothalamus in the rat, with special reference to cardiovascular function

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 261-269

  Tsumori, Toshiko ^a   Yokota, Shigefumi ^a   Qin, Yi ^b   Oka, Tatsuro ^a   Yasui, Yukihiko ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular function; Central amygdaloid nucleus; Convergent projections; Insular cortex; Posterior lateral hypothalamus; Rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINE; DEXTRAN; LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSULA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEXTRANS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33750027719     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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