Spinal and brain circuits to motoneurons of the bulbospongiosus muscle: Retrograde transneuronal tracing with rabies virus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 414, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-192

  Tang, Yi ^a,b   Rampin, Oliver ^c   Giuliano, François ^a   Ugolini, Gabriella ^b  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Barrington's nucleus; Cerebral cortex; Ejaculation; Hypothalamus; Pudendal motoneurons; Urogenital functions

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RABIES VIRUS; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EJACULATION; KINETICS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PENIS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0032885220     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19991115)414:2<167::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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