Ultrastructural analysis of prefrontal cortical inputs to the rat amygdala: Spatial relationships to presumed dopamine axons and D1 and D2 receptors

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 159-175

  Pinto, Aline ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; D1 receptor; D2 receptor; Dopamine; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; NEUROPIL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

RATTUS;

EID: 50249110181     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-008-0180-6     Document Type: Article

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