Individual axon morphology and thalamocortical topography in developing rat somatosensory cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-53

  Catalano, Susan M ^a   Robertson, Richard T ^a   Killackey, Herbert P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

axon arbors; barrels; neocortex; thalamus; ventral posterior nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; HISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; NERVE ENDINGS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029913891     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960325)367:1<36::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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