Comparison of projection neurons in the pontine nuclei and the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis of the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 376, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 403-419

  Schwarz, Cornelius ^a   Thier, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebellum; dendritic morphology; fixed slices; intracellular filling; retrograde tracing

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; LATEX; LUCIFER YELLOW; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PONS; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CEREBELLUM; DENDRITES; FLUORESCENT DYES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0029908861     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961216)376:3<403::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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