Thalamic territories innervated by cerebellar nuclear afferents in the hedgehog tenrec, Echinops telfairi

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 402, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 313-326

  Künzle, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellar efferents; Cerebrocerebellar circuits; Lateralis posterior pulvinar complex; Nucleus ventralis lateralis; Nucleus ventralis medialis; Zona incerta

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; EVOLUTION; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HEDGEHOG; MAMMAL; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AFFERENT DEPOLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; HEDGEHOGS; MOLECULAR PROBES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; THALAMIC NUCLEI; THALAMUS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0032556642     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981221)402:3<313::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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