Transient fetal structure, the gangliothalamic body, connects telencephalic germinal zone with all thalamic regions in the developing human brain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 384, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 373-395

  Letinić, Kresǐmir ^a   Kostović, Ivica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Diencephalon; Dorsomedial nucleus; Golgi impregnation; Immunocytochemistry; Transient structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL MIGRATION; DIENCEPHALON; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TELENCEPHALON;

EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GANGLIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0030794085     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970804)384:3<373::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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