An Organotypic Spinal Cord‐Dorsal Root Ganglion‐Skeletal Muscle Coculture of Embryonic Rat. I. The Morphological Correlates of the Spinal Reflex Arc

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 1037-1053

  Spenger, Christian ^a   Braschler, Urs Felix ^a   Streit, Jürg ^a   Lüscher, Hans‐Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

development; motoneurons; muscle afferent fibres; parvalbumin; slice cultures

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMBRYO; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL REFLEX; TISSUE SLICE;

EID: 0025935416     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1991.tb00041.x     Document Type: Article

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