Single purkinje cell can innervate multiple classes of projection neurons in the cerebellar nuclei of the rat: A light microscopic and ultrastructural triple-tracer study in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 392, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 164-178

  Teune, T M ^a   Van Der Burg, J ^a   De Zeeuw, C I ^a   Voogd, J ^a   Ruigrok, T J H ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebellar modules; Cerebellum; Inferior olive; Red nucleus; Synaptic organization

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; LECTIN; TRACER; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR OLIVE; INNERVATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BENZIDINES; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GOLD; LECTINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0032498874     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980309)392:2<164::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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