Regional connections of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus in the rat

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-219

  Bay, Hüsniye Hacoǧlu ^a   Çavdar, Safiye ^b  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

connections; Mediodorsal thalamus; regional

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; VISCERA; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STILBAMIDINES;

EID: 84880815106     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: 1757448X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021963521350012X     Document Type: Article

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