TY - JOUR JF - BCN JO - BCN VL - 2 IS - 1 PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/11/01 TI - Effect of Protein Malnutrition on Efferent Projections of Amygdala to the Hippocampus TT - N2 - ABSTRACTIntroduction: Previous investigations have shown that protein malnutrition can alters the structure and function of some areas of hippocampal formation. We investigated the effect of protein malnutrition on amygdaloid projections to the CA1 hippocampal area. In this study we investigated level and pattern of distribution of efferent projections from amygdala to hippocampus in the rat by Horseradish Peroxidas (HRP) neural tract tracing in 2 groups Control group fed with regular diet (% 18 proteins)and case group fed with low protein diet (%8). We used SPSS 11.0 (T test & mann-withney) Software for data analysis.Methods: Following injection of HRP to CA1 region of hippocampus in the control group Rats, Labelled neurons showed more density in the Basolateral, Cortical and Medial nuclear Groups. Having done the analysis and examining the relations between the case data and those of the control groups, we found that number of labelled neurons in the Basolateral, Cortical & medial nuclei were decreased in the case group(p SP - 37 EP - 43 AU - Hassanzadeh, Gholamreza AU - Barzroodi pour, Mitra AU - Bayat, Mohammad AU - Javadi, Miriam AD - KW - Hippocampus KW - Amygdala KW - Protein Malnutrition. UR - http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-66-en.html ER -