Organization of the medial pulvinar nucleus in the Macaque

Anatomical Record

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 220-237

  Ma, Terence P ^a,b   Lynch, James C ^a,b   Donahoe, D Kevin ^a   Attallah, Hamdee ^c   Rafols, José A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diencephalon; Eye movement; Primate; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; DENDRITE; MACACA; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SENSORY NERVE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031916113     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199802)250:2<220::AID-AR12>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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