Axonal branching and termination of cervical reticulospinal neurons in the cat brachial segments

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 83-86

  Sasaki, Shigeto ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropol Inst N   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Orienting; Reticulospinal neuron; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CAT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; CELL SIZE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORELIMB; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MOTOR NEURONS; NECK; ORIENTATION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030741796     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00362-5     Document Type: Article

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