Relaxin-3 innervation of the intergeniculate leaflet of the rat thalamus - neuronal tract-tracing and in vitro electrophysiological studies

Anna Blasiak; Tomasz Blasiak; Marian H Lewandowski; Mohammed Akhter Hossain; John D Wade; Andrew L Gundlach

Journal article

Relaxin-3 innervation of the intergeniculate leaflet of the rat thalamus - neuronal tract-tracing and in vitro electrophysiological studies

Anna Blasiak, Tomasz Blasiak, Marian H Lewandowski, Mohammed Akhter Hossain, John D Wade, Andrew L Gundlach

European Journal of Neuroscience | WILEY | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12155

University of Melbourne Researchers

Andrew Gundlach Author Anatomy and Neuroscience

Akhter Hossain Author Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health

John Wade Author Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by: a research grant from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (N N303 569939 to T.B., A.B. and A.L.G.); a Commonwealth of Australia Endeavour Research Fellowship (A.B.); research grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia (277609, 509246 and 1005988 to A.L.G.); a grant from the Florey Medical Research Foundation (A.L.G.); and the Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Program. A.L.G. is an NHMRC (Australia) Senior Research Fellow. The authors would like to thank the Confocal Microscopy Laboratory, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University for use of the LSM 510 META, Axiovert 200 M, ConfoCor 3 microscope (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, Jena, Germany).