Development, neurochemical properties, and axonal projections of a population of last-order premotor interneurons in the white matter of the chick lumbosacral spinal cord

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-172

  Antal, Miklós ^a   Puskár, Zita ^a   Birinyi, András ^a   Storm Mathisen, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACK; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKEN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; NERVE FIBER; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0034141663     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(20000201)286:2<157::AID-JEZ8>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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