Direct projections from the lumbosacral spinal cord to Barrington's nucleus in the rat: A special reference to micturition reflex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 389, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 149-160

  Ding, Yu Qiang ^a   Zheng, Heng Xing ^a   Gong, Liang Wei ^a   Lu, Yan ^a   Zhao, Hua ^a   Qin, Bing Zhi ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dorsal commissural nucleus; Micturition center; Periaqueductal gray; Spinal parasympathetic nucleus; Spinopontine projection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MICTURITION REFLEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BIOTINYLATION; CHOLERA TOXIN; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; URINATION;

EID: 0030708515     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19971208)389:1<149::AID-CNE11>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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