Organization of ventral tegmental area projections to the ventral tegmental area-nigral complex in the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 196-213

  Ferreira, J G P ^a   Del Fava, F ^a   Hasue, R H ^a   Shammah Lagnado, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

basal ganglia; dopamine; retrorubral nucleus; reward; substantia nigra; supramammillary nucleus

Indexed keywords

LEUKOAGGLUTININ; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STAINING AND LABELING; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 41949127860     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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