Development of primary visual projections occurs entirely postnatally in the fat-tailed dunnart, a marsupial mouse, Sminthopsis crassicaudata

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 384, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-40

  Dunlop, S A ^a   Tee, L B G ^a   Lund, R D ^b   Beazley, L D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lateral geniculate nucleus; Optic pathways; Optic stalk; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0030963020     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970721)384:1<26::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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