Disruption of raphé serotonergic neural projections to the cortex: A potential pathway contributing to remote loss of brainstem neurons following neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3483-3491

  Reinebrant, Hanna E ^a   Wixey, Julie A ^a   Buller, Kathryn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

5 HT; Neuroinflammation; Rat; Retrograde transport; Tract tracing

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; MINOCYCLINE; SEROTONIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CAROTID ARTERY LIGATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHOLERA TOXIN; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFLAMMATION; MINOCYCLINE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL TRACT-TRACERS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84870505951     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08276.x     Document Type: Article

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