Development of thalamocortical projections in the South American gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 398, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 491-514

  Molnár, Zoltán ^a   Knott, Graham W ^a,b   Blakemore, Colin ^a   Saunders, Norman R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Internal capsule; Marsupial; Subplate; Thalamus; Waiting period

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CAPSULA INTERNA; MARSUPIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; OPOSSUMS; PROSENCEPHALON; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032494280     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980907)398:4<491::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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