Projections from the upper lumbar cord to the cerebellar nuclei in the rat, studied by anterograde axonal tracing

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 412, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 633-648

  Matsushita, Matsuo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellar cortex; Clarke's column; Spinal border cells; Spinal cord; Spinocerebellar tract

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOTIN; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; DEXTRANS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INJECTIONS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033523587     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19991004)412:4<633::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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