Topographical connections of the substantia nigra pars reticulata to higher-order thalamic nuclei in the rat

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 87, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 312-318

  Gulcebi, Medine Idrizoglu ^a   Ketenci, Sema ^a   Linke, Rudiger ^b   Hacioĝlu, Husniye ^a   Yanali, Hasan ^a   Veliskova, Jana ^c   Moshé, Solomon L ^c   Onat, Filiz ^a   Çavdar, Safiye ^d  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracing; Higher order; Substantia nigra pars reticulata; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEXTRANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 84856610519     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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