Collateral projection from the locus coeruleus to whisker-related sensory and motor brain regions of the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 514, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 387-402

  Lee, Sat Byol ^a   Beak, Suk K ^a   Park, Seung H ^a   Waterhouse, Barry D ^b   Lee, Hyun S ^a  

^a Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Locus coeruleus; Sensorimotor integration; Tract tracing; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS POSTEROMEDIAL VENTRAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

COLLOIDAL GOLD; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FEMALE; GOLD COLLOID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 65649116229     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22012     Document Type: Article

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