Coexpression of Serotonin and Nitric Oxide in the Raphe Complex: Cortical Versus Subcortical Circuit

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1954-1965

  Lu, Yuefeng ^a   Simpson, Kimberly L ^b   Weaver, Kristin J ^b   Lin, Rick C S ^b  

^a TOUGALOO COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal raphe; Medial prefrontal cortex; Median raphe; Supralemniscal nucleus

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 78049483837     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21222     Document Type: Article

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