Dopaminergic projections to the medial preoptic area of postpartum rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1384-1396

  Miller, S M ^a   Lonstein, J S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

catecholamine; dopamine; female; maternal behavior; postpartum

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; FLUOROGOLD; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREOPTIC AREA; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 63349106940     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.01.060     Document Type: Article

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