Cerebral microgyria, thalamic cell size and auditory temporal processing in male and female rats

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 453-464

  Herman, Amy E ^c   Galaburda, Albert M ^b   Holly Fitch, R ^a   Carter, Alex R ^c   Rosen, Glenn D ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MICROGYRIA; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEMALE; FREEZING; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030852085     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/7.5.453     Document Type: Article

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