Efferent and afferent connections of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus determined by neural tracer analysis: Implications for lordosis regulation in female rats

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 19-33

  Shimogawa, Yuji ^a   Sakuma, Yasuo ^b   Yamanouchi, Korehito ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterograde neural tracer; Female rat; Lordosis; Neural connection; Retrograde neural tracer; Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS LEUCOAGGLUTININ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BED; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION SITE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LORDOSIS; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; STRIA TERMINALIS; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; LORDOSIS; OVARIECTOMY; RATS, WISTAR; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84924028269     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2014.10.016     Document Type: Article

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