The effect of neocortical lesions on the number of cells in neonatal or adult feline caudate nucleus: Comparison to fetal lesions

Neuroscience

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 403-418

  Loopuijt, L D ^a,c   Villablanca, J R ^a   Hovda, D A ^b   Huang, E ^a   Mancuso, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

age at lesion; brain development; caudate nucleus; cell death; neocortical lesions; stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CAT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROGLIA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031055317     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00457-5     Document Type: Article

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