Conditional viral tracing reveals that steroidogenic factor 1-positive neurons of the dorsomedial subdivision of the ventromedial hypothalamus project to autonomic centers of the hypothalamus and hindbrain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 521, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3167-3190

  Lindberg, Daniel ^a   Chen, Peilin ^a   Li, Chien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Respiration; Retrotrapezoid nucleus; Rostral ventrolateral medulla; Stress; Sympathetic nervous system; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; CRE RECOMBINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CAUDAL VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; EFFERENT NERVE; LATERAL LEMNISCUS; LATERAL VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROTRAPEZOID NUCLEUS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ROSTRAL VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; ROSTRAL VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIRAL TRACING; ZONA INCERTA;

RESPIRATION; RETROTRAPEZOID NUCLEUS; ROSTRAL VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; STRESS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MELANOCYTE-STIMULATING HORMONES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84881257127     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23338     Document Type: Article

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