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It is lodged primarily in the lateral hypothalamus but has projections all over the cortex, especially the nucleus accumbens, which is the center of reinforcement.
2004), whose preliminary data suggested that patients with surgical lesions to the orbitofrontal cortex were impaired.
We determine the amount of myosin-II that is in the cleavage furrow cortex and monitor the flux of wild type and 3 × Ala myosin-II during cytokinesis.
5-HT 2C receptors [ 8 ] and insulin/IGF-1 receptors [ 11 ] co-localize in several areas in the brain including choroid plexus, olfactory bulb, cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, and hippocampus.
Since reference memory is thought to be mediated in the frontal cortex and because males fed the Phyto-600 diet had decreased expression of CALB (a neuroprotectant factor) and increased COX-2 (an inflammatory factor prevalent in Alzheimer's disease) levels in this brain region compared to males fed the Phyto-free diet, these findings suggest that phytoestrogens, present in soy dietary sources, may alter VSM via there presence and action in the frontal cortex.