Functional anatomy of the thalamus in the blind mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi: An architectonic and electrophysiologically controlled tracing study

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 347, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 570-584

  Rehkämper, Gerd ^a   Necker, Reinhold ^b   Nevo, Eviatar ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

medial geniculate body; Po nucleus; somatosensory system; subterranean life; VPM VPL nuclei

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RODENTIA; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STAINING AND LABELING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0027980230     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.903470408     Document Type: Article

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