Dendritic morphology of projection neurons in the cat pretectum

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 369, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 520-532

  Schmidt, Matthias ^a   Lehnert, Gesa ^a   Baker, Robert G ^b   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dorsal terminal nucleus; inferior olive; lateral geniculate nucleus; nucleus of the optic tract; posterior pretectal nucleus

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATS; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENICULATE BODIES; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, EFFERENT; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0030008964     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960610)369:4<520::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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