Dual termination modes of corticothalamic fibers originating from pyramids of layers 5 and 6 in cat visual cortical area 17

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-60

  Ojima, Hisayuki ^a,b   Murakami, Kunio ^b   Kishi, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Corticothalamic projection; Lateral geniculate nuclei; Lateral posterior pulvinar complex; Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0029980513     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12538-6     Document Type: Article

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