Corticofugal axone from adjacent 'barrel' columns of rat somatosensory cortex: Cortical and thalamic terminal patterns

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 379-390

  Wright, A K ^a   Norrie, L ^a   Arbuthnott, G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical barrels; Mystacial vibrissae; Thalamic barreloids; Thalamic nuclei

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TOPOGRAPHY; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INNERVATION; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0034073226     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021878299006159     Document Type: Article

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