Unipolar brush cells of the vestibulocerebellum: Afferents and targets

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 124, Issue , 2000, Pages 123-137

  Diño, Maria R ^a   Nunzi, Maria Grazia ^a   Anelli, Roberta ^a   Mugnaini, Enrico ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

BRUSH BORDER; CEREBELLUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033854618     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(00)24013-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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