Dendritic morphology changes in neurons from the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and nucleus accumbens in rats after lesion of the thalamic reticular nucleus

Neuroscience

Volumn 223, Issue , 2012, Pages 429-438

  Torres Garcia M E ^a   Solis, O ^a   Patricio, A ^a   Rodriguez Moreno A ^b   Camacho Abrego, I ^a   Limon I D ^a   Flores, G ^a  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dendritic morphology; Hippocampus; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Schizophrenia; Thalamic reticular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEDIUM SPINY NEURON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STAINING; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILVER STAINING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866480073     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.07.042     Document Type: Article

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