Projections from the posterolateral olfactory amygdala to the ventral striatum: Neural basis for reinforcing properties of chemical stimuli

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ubeda Bañon, Isabel ^a   Novejarque, Amparo ^b   Mohedano Moriano, Alicia ^a   Pro Sistiaga, Palma ^a   de la Rosa Prieto, Carlos ^a   Insausti, Ricardo ^a   Martinez Garcia, Fernando ^b   Lanuza, Enrique ^b   Martinez Marcos, Alino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN AMINE; DEXTRAN DERIVATIVE; FLUOROGOLD; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; RAT; STAINING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 38649140702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-103     Document Type: Article

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