First evidence of diversity in eutherian chiasmatic architecture: Tree shrews, like marsupials, have spatially segregated crossed and uncrossed chiasmatic pathways

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 390, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-193

  Jeffery, Glen ^a   Harman, Alison ^b   Flügge, Gabriele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optic chiasm; Optic nerve; Retina

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; PROLINE; TRACER; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; MARSUPIALIA; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC CHIASM; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SHREWS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0031963775     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980112)390:2<183::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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