Projections of the paraventricular and paratenial nuclei of the dorsal midline thalamus in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 508, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 212-237

  Vertes, Robert P ^a   Hoover, Walter B ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of stria terminalis; Central and basal nuclei of amygdala; Medial prefrontal cortex; Nucleus accumbens; Subiculum of hippocampus

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARATENIAL NUCLEI; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STILBAMIDINES;

EID: 42449085761     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21679     Document Type: Article

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