'Rodent-like' and 'primate-like' types of astroglial architecture in the adult cerebral cortex of mammals: A comparative study

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-120

  Colombo, Jorge A ^a   Fuchs, Eberhard ^b   Härtig, Wolfgang ^c   Marotte, Lauren R ^d   Puissant, Virginia ^a  

^a CEMIC   (Argentina)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex organization; Frontal cortex; Mammalian cerebral cortex; Primate cerebral cortex; Prosimians; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAIN CORTEX; CATTLE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MACROGLIA; MARSUPIAL; MONKEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANDENTIA; SHEEP;

EID: 0033977628     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008231     Document Type: Article

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