Bottlebrush dendritic endings and large dendritic fields: Motion- detecting neurons in the tectofugal pathway

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 396, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 399-414

  Luksch, Harald ^a   Cox, Kevin ^b   Karten, Harvey J ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Mammals; Retinal ganglion cells; Stratum griseum centrale; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DENDRITE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CHICKENS; CHOLERA TOXIN; COLUMBIDAE; DENDRITES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LYSINE; MAMMALS; NEURONS; RETINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032490547     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980706)396:3<399::AID-CNE9>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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