Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical characterization of commissural neurons in the ventral cochlear nucleus of the rat

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 427-438

  Alibardi, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Commissural neurons; Contralateral cochlear nucleus; Immunocytochemistry; Rat; Ultrastructure; Ventral cochlear nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; TRACER; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CAPPING PHENOMENON; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GIANT NERVE CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROFILAMENT; NISSL SUBSTANCE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; RIBOSOME; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA; EQUUS CABALLUS; FELIS CATUS; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031693487     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(98)80103-9     Document Type: Article

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