Morphometric development of the human fetal auditory system: Inferior collicular nucleus

Brain and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-39

  Nara, Takahiro ^a   Goto, Noboru ^b   Hamano, Shin Ichiro ^a   Okada, Akira ^c  

^a SAITAMA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory pathway; Development; Human fetus; Inferior collicular nucleus; Serial sections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CELL SIZE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030048324     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(95)00089-5     Document Type: Article

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