Organization of the zona incerta in the macaque: An electron microscopic study

Anatomical Record

Volumn 249, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 259-275

  Ma, Terence P ^a,b   Johnson, James C ^a   Hoskins, Glenn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diencephalon; Eye movement; Saccade; Synapse; Thalamus; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; KARYOTYPE; MACACA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TELENCEPHALON; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NISSL BODIES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

ANIMALIA; MACACA;

EID: 0030824233     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199710)249:2<259::AID-AR14>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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