Thalamic collaterals of corticostriatal axons: Their termination field and synaptic targets in cats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 372, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 551-567

  Paré, Denis ^a   Smith, Yoland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cortex; electron microscopy; striatum; thalamus; tract tracing technique

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LABELING INDEX; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TARGET CELL; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOTIN; CATS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029839730     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960902)372:4<551::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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