Zinc-rich afferents to the rat neocortex: Projections to the visual cortex traced with intracerebral selenite injections

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-109

  Casanovas Aguilar, Carme ^a   Reblet, Concepción ^b   Pérez Clausell, Jeús ^a   Bueno López, José Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Claustrum; Cortico cortical connections; Frontal cortex; Orbital cortex; Pyramidal neurons; Retrograde transport; Timm method

Indexed keywords

SODIUM SELENITE; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLAUSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY NERVE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM SELENITE; VISUAL CORTEX; ZINC;

EID: 0031814847     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-0618(98)00035-0     Document Type: Article

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