Dendrite bundles in motoneuronal pools of trunk and extremity muscles in the rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-42

  Gramsbergen, A ^a   Ijkema Paassen, J ^a   Westerga, J ^a   Geisler, H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030045706     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0004     Document Type: Article

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