Amygdalar peptidergic circuits regulating noradrenergic locus coeruleus neurons: Linking limbic and arousal centers

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-105

  Reyes, B A S ^a   Carvalho, A F ^a   Vakharia, K ^a   Van Bockstaele, E J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BDA; DYN; Electron microscopy; Locus coeruleus; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DYNORPHIN; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; METENKEPHALIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PEROXIDASE; SILVER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PARTICLE SIZE; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BIOTIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEXTRANS; DYNORPHINS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 79958027311     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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