A major external source of cholinergic innervation of the striatum and nucleus accumbens originates in the Brainstem

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4509-4518

  Dautan, Daniel ^a,b   Huerta Ocampo, Icnelia ^a   Witten, Ilana B ^c   Deisseroth, Karl ^d   Paul Bolam, J ^a   Gerdjikov, Todor ^b   Mena Segovia, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic; Innervation; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Pedunculopontine nucleus; Striatum; Topography

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHOLINERGIC; INNERVATION; LATERODORSAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PEDUNCULOPONTINE NUCLEUS; STRIATUM; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RHODOPSIN; SYNAPSES; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

EID: 84897888716     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5071-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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