Long-range projection neurons of the mouse ventral tegmental area: A single-cell axon tracing analysis

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Aransay, Ana ^a   Rodríguez López, Claudia ^a   García Amado, María ^a   Clascá, Francisco ^a   Prensa, Lucía ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axonal branching; Cortex; Dopamine; Parabraquial pigmented nucleus; Rostral ventral tegmental area; Single cell labeling; Thalamus; Ventral pallidum

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PEROXIDASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MESOCORTICAL NEURON; MESOCORTICOLIMBIC NEURON; MESOLIMBIC NEURON; MESOSTRIATAL NEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEREOLOGY; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 84930507547     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00059     Document Type: Article

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