Serotonergic projections and serotonin receptor expression in the reticular nucleus of the thalamus in the rat

Synapse

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 919-928

  Rodríguez, José J ^a,b,c   Noristani, Harun N ^d   Hoover, Walter B ^e   Linley, Stephanie B ^e   Vertes, Robert P ^e  

^a BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Raphe; Reticular nucleus; Serotonin; Serotonin receptors; Serotonin transporter; Supralemniscal nucleus; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STILBAMIDINES; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 79959940435     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20920     Document Type: Article

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