Synaptic connections between GABAergic elements and serotonergic terminals or projecting neurons in the ventrolateral orbital cortex.

@article{Huo2009SynapticCB,
  title={Synaptic connections between GABAergic elements and serotonergic terminals or projecting neurons in the ventrolateral orbital cortex.},
  author={Fu-Quan Huo and Tao Chen and Bo-Chang Lv and Jing Wang and Ting Zhang and Chao-ling Qu and Yun-Qing Li and Jing-shi Tang},
  journal={Cerebral cortex},
  year={2009},
  volume={19 6},
  pages={
          1263-72
        }
}
The ventrolateral orbital cortex (VLO) is part of an endogenous analgesic system, consisting of the spinal cord-thalamic nucleus submedius-VLO periaqueductal gray (PAG)-spinal cord loop. The present study examined morphological connections of GABAergic (gamma-aminobutyric acidergic) neurons and serotonergic projection terminals from the dorsal raphe nucleus (DR), as well as the relationship between GABAergic terminals and VLO neurons projecting to the PAG, by using anterograde and retrograde… 
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