Sciatic and femoral nerve sensory neurones occupy different regions of the L4 dorsal root ganglion in the adult rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 169-172

  Puigdellívol Sánchez, Anna ^a   Prats Galino, Alberto ^a   Ruano Gil, Domingo ^a   Molander, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglion somatotopy; Femoral nerve; Fluorescent tracers; Primary sensory afferents; Sciatic nerve; Three dimensional reconstructions

Indexed keywords

DIAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; DIAMIDINO YELLOW; FAST BLUE; FLUORESCENT DYE; FLUOROGOLD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMORAL NERVE; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; FEMORAL NERVE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0032584687     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00518-7     Document Type: Article

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