Prenatal development of the vestibular ganglion and vestibulocerebellar fibres in the rat

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-161

  Ashwell, Ken W S ^a   Zhang, Luan Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell death; Parvalbumin; Synapse formation

Indexed keywords

CARBOCYANINE; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SACCULUS; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPSE; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; CARBOCYANINES; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SENSORY; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURONS; PARVALBUMINS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031869554     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050173     Document Type: Article

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