Ipsilateral and contralateral serotonergic projections from dorsal and median raphe nuclei to the forebrain in rats: Immunofluorescence quantitative analysis

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-218

  Kanno, Kouta ^a   Shima, Satoshi ^a   Ishida, Yuki ^a   Yamanouchi, Korehito ^a  

^a Neuroendocrinology   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 HT immunopositive cell; Lateral septum; Laterality; Midbrain raphe projections; Preoptic area; Retrograde neural tracer; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

PEROXIDASE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROSENCEPHALON; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN;

EID: 42749096664     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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