Heterogeneous output pathways link the anterior pretectal nucleus with the zona incerta and the thalamus in rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 506, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 122-140

  Giber, Kristóf ^a   Slézia, Andrea ^a   Bokor, Hajnalka ^a   Bodor, Ágnes L ^a   Ludányi, Anikó ^a   Katona, István ^a   Acsády, László ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b NONE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ascending control; Diencephalon; GABA; Higher order relays; Somatosensory; Thalamocortical

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; DEXTRANS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBTHALAMUS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 37349081539     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21545     Document Type: Article

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