Activation of the mouse primary visual cortex by medial prefrontal subregion stimulation is not mediated by cholinergic basalo-cortical projections

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Nguyen, Hoang Nam ^a   Huppé Gourgues, Frédéric ^a   Vaucher, Elvire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autometallography; Basal forebrain; Cholinergic neurons; Immunocytochemistry; Neuronal activity; Prefrontal cortex; Thallium; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOS; THALLIUM;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTOMETALLOGRAPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFRALIMBIC CORTICE; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRIATE CORTEX;

EID: 84923230605     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00001     Document Type: Article

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