Complementary distribution of glutamatergic cerebellar and GABAergic basal ganglia afferents to the rat motor thalamic nuclei

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-109

  Kuramoto, Eriko ^a   Fujiyama, Fumino ^a,b   Nakamura, Kouichi C ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Hioki, Hiroyuki ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracers; Immunocytochemistry; Kainic acid lesion; Ventral anterior ventral lateral complex; Ventral medial nucleus

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROPIL; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CEREBELLUM; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 78650770560     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07481.x     Document Type: Article

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