Lateral habenula projections to dopamine and GABA neurons in the rat ventral tegmental area

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1239-1250

  Omelchenko, Natalia ^a   Bell, Roland ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; PEROXIDASE; SILVER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HABENULA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; DOPAMINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HABENULA; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL TRACT-TRACERS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 70350437997     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06924.x     Document Type: Article

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