Volume of the putamen in cats with fetal or postnatal unilateral neocortical lesions

Developmental Brain Dysfunction

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 133-141

  Loopuijt, Louise D ^b   Villablanca, Jaime R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Age at lesion; Brain development; Neocortical lesions; Neostriatum; Putamen

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CAT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECORTICATION; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PUTAMEN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 0031403281     PISSN: 10195815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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