Efferent and collateral organization of paratrigeminal nucleus projections: An anterograde and retrograde fluorescent tracer study in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 402, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-110

  Saxon, Dale W ^b,c   Hopkins, David A ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Indiana University School of Medicine Evansville   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve; Double labeling; Lamina I; Medullary dorsal horn; Nucleus of the tractus solitarius; Parabrachial nucleus

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; RHODAMINE; TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE DEXTRAN; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARBOCYANINES; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, EFFERENT; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHODAMINES; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; STILBAMIDINES; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS, SPINAL; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0032495012     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981207)402:1<93::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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