Topography of descending projections from anterior insular and medial prefrontal regions to the lateral habenula of the epithalamus in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1253-1269

  Kim, Uhnoh ^a   Lee, Taehee ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Corticohabenular; Infralimbic cortex; Insular cortex; Prelimbic cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CELL LABELING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHALAMUS; FEMALE; HABENULA; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLERA TOXIN; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; HABENULA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84860001626     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08030.x     Document Type: Article

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