Efferent projections of the anterior and posterodorsal regions of the medial nucleus of the amygdala in the mouse

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 256-285

  Usunoff, Kamen G ^a   Schmitt, Oliver ^c   Itzev, Dimitar E ^b   Haas, Stefan Jean Pierre ^c   Lazarov, Nikolai E ^a   Rolfs, Arndt ^c   Wree, Andreas ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of stria terminalis; Biotinylated dextran amine; Hypothalamus; Limbic system; Medial preoptic nucleus area; Reproductive behavior

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EFFERENT NERVE; FOREBRAIN; INNERVATION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MESENCEPHALON; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEXTRANS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; NEURONAL TRACT-TRACERS; PREOPTIC AREA; REPRODUCTION; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

RODENTIA;

EID: 70350346488     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000209233     Document Type: Article

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