Segment-specific branching patterns of single vestibulospinal tract axons arising from the lateral vestibular nucleus in the cat: A PHA-L tracing study

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 414, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 80-96

  Kuze, Bunya ^a,b   Matsuyama, Kiyoji ^a   Matsui, Toshihiro ^a   Miyata, Hideo ^b   Mori, Shigemi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical cord; Deiters' nucleus; Descending axon; Lateral vestibulospinal tract; Lumbar cord; Thoracic cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; FEMALE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CATS; FEMALE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NECK; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SPINAL CORD; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0033536929     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19991108)414:1<80::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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