Development of motoneurons and primary sensory afferents in the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord of the South American opossum Monodelphis domestica

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 414, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-436

  Knott, Graham W ^a   Kitchener, Peter D ^b   Saunders, Norman R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbocyanine dye; Dorsal horn; GSA; Marsupial

Indexed keywords

CARBOCYANINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTONEURON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CARBOCYANINES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MOTOR NEURONS; OPOSSUMS; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032745867     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19991129)414:4<423::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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