Projections of the vestibular nuclei to the thalamus in the rat: A Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin study

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 407, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 318-332

  Shiroyama, Takashi ^a   Kayahara, Tetsuro ^a   Yasui, Yukihiko ^b   Nomura, Junichi ^a   Nakano, Katsuma ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Centromedian nucleus; Corpus striatum; Frontal eye field; Saccades

Indexed keywords

LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 0033542065     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990510)407:3<318::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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