Early commitment of embryonic neocortical cells to develop area-specific thalamic connections

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 443-453

  Gaillard, Afsaneh ^a   Roger, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

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ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT; THALAMUS;

EID: 0034113473     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.5.443     Document Type: Article

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