Light and electron microscopic analysis of synaptic input from cortical area 17 to the lateral posterior nucleus in cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-70

  Vidnyánszky, Zoltán ^a   Borostyánkõi, Zsolt ^a   Görcs, Tamás J ^a   Hámori, József ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid; Cat; Corticothalamic; Immunocytochemistry; Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MICROSCOPY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; CORPUS STRIATUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029920522     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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