Organization of the Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Projection System: Specific or Diffuse?

The Rat Nervous System: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 491-507

  Zaborszky, Laszlo ^a   Duque, Alvaro ^b   Gielow, Matthew ^a   Gombkoto, Peter ^a   Nadasdy, Zoltan ^c   Somogyi, Jozsef ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiologically identified neurons; Organization of the basal forebrain cholinergic system; Statistical neuroanatomy; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930761689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374245-2.00019-X     Document Type: Chapter

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