Cholinergic and non-cholinergic mesopontine tegmental neurons projecting to the subthalamic nucleus in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 433-443

  Kita, Takako ^a   Kita, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic projection; Pedunculopontine tegmentum; Subthalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEXTRAN; FLUOROGOLD; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; TEGMENTUM; VARICOSIS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 79251564423     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07537.x     Document Type: Article

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