Organization of the nigro-tecto-bulbar pathway to the parvicellular reticular formation: A light- and electron-microscopic study in the rat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 341-350

  Tsumori, T ^a   Yasui, Y ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Orofacial movement; Parvicellular reticular formation; Rat; Substantia nigra; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINE; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; DEXTRAN DERIVATIVE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; FACIAL NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; CHOLERA TOXIN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETICULAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0030885104     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005761     Document Type: Article

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