Multiple amygdaloid divisions of arcopallium send convergent projections to the nucleus accumbens and neighboring subpallial amygdala regions in the domestic chicken: a selective pathway tracing and reconstruction study

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 301-315

  Hanics, János ^a,b   Teleki, Gyöngyi ^a   Alpár, Alán ^a,b   Székely, Andrea D ^a   Csillag, András ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Avian; Basal ganglia; Calcium binding proteins; Dopamine; Subpallium; Viscerolimbic

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALRETININ; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; PARVALBUMIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN DARPP 32; AVIAN PROTEIN;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; CHICKEN; COGNITION; FEAR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VENTRAL PALLIDUM; ANIMAL; BASAL FOREBRAIN; CYTOLOGY; FOREBRAIN; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BASAL FOREBRAIN; CALBINDIN 2; CALBINDINS; CHICKENS; DOPAMINE AND CAMP-REGULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN 32; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARVALBUMINS; PROSENCEPHALON; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 84962754561     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-016-1219-8     Document Type: Article

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