Ultrastructural analysis of sex differences in nucleus accumbens synaptic connectivity

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-190

  Wissman, Anne Marie ^a   May, Renee M ^a   Woolley, Catherine S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine; Dopamine; Electron microscopy; Glutamate; Stereology; Synapse

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DENSITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEREOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

RATTUS;

EID: 84862843736     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-011-0353-6     Document Type: Article

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