Organization of nonprimary motor cortical inputs on pyramidal and nonpyramidal tract neurons of primary motor cortex: An electrophysiological study in the macaque monkey

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-68

  Tokuno, Hironobu ^a   Nambu, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; MACACA; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

EID: 0033981146     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.1.58     Document Type: Article

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