Early postnatal development of the rat corticostriatal pathway: An anterograde axonal tracing study using biocytin pellets

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-80

  Christensen, Jakob ^a   Sørensen, Jens Christian ^a,b   Østergaard, Karen ^a   Zimmer, Jens ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Excitotoxic; Glutamate; Huntington's disease; Organotypic cultures; Patch matrix

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DENSITY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EFFERENT NERVE; FORELIMB; GOLGI COMPLEX; JAW; LIP; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX; TONGUE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; LYSINE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STAINING AND LABELING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032978890     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050261     Document Type: Article

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