Projections from the lowest lumbar and sacral-caudal segments to the cerebellar nuclei in the rat, studied by anterograde axonal tracing

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 404, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-32

  Matsushita, Matsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biotinylated dextran; Cerebellar cortex; Cerrebellum; Spinal cord; Spinocerebellar tract

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; HINDLIMB; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL ROOT; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033081247     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990201)404:1<21::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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