Neuronal projections from ventral tegmental area to forebrain structures in rat studied by manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-299

  Li, Yingxia ^a   Fang, Fang ^a,b   Wang, Xuxia ^a,b   Lei, Hao ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Manganese; Rat; Reward circuit; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE; MANGANESE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

RATTUS;

EID: 61649099035     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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