Amygdalofugal axon terminals immunoreactive for L-aspartate or L-glutamate in the nucleus accumbens of rats and domestic chickens: A comparative electron microscopic immunocytochemical study combined with anterograde pathway tracing

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 350, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 409-423

  Hanics, János ^a   Bálint, Eszter ^a   Milanovich, Dániel ^a   Zachar, Gergely ^a   Ádám, Ágota ^a   Csillag, András ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Avian; Basal ganglia; Excitatory amino acid; Pathway tracing; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AMYGDALOFUGAL AXON TERMINAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBEDDING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; AXONS; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84871234664     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1494-5     Document Type: Article

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