At what age is the developing cerebral cortex of the rat comparable to that of the full-term newborn human baby?

Early Human Development

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 61-67

  Romijn, Herms J ^a   Hofman, Michel A ^a   Gramsbergen, Albert ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cerebral cortex; development; perinatology; rat, human

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERINATOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0025734533     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3782(91)90044-4     Document Type: Article

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