Direct and Indirect Thalamic Afferents Arising from the Vestibular Nuclear Complex of Rats: Medial and Spinal Vestibular Nuclei

Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-32

  Doi, Kiyoshi ^a   Seki, Makoto ^a   Kuroda, Yoshiharu ^a   Okamura, Nobutaka ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a   Hayakawa, Tetsu ^a   Zyo, Katuya ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracing; Retrograde tracing; Thalamic afferent; Trigeminal nucleus; Vestibular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL NERVE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; WISTAR RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL NERVES; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0031133378     PISSN: 0030154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2535/ofaj1936.74.1_9     Document Type: Article

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