An unusual population of pyramidal neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex of hominids contains the calcium-binding protein calretinin

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 139-142

  Hof, Patrick R ^a,b,e   Nimchinsky, Esther A ^c   Perl, Daniel P ^a,e   Erwin, Joseph M ^d,e  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^d BIOQUAL INC   (United States)

^e Foundation for Comparative and Conservation Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Calcium binding proteins; Cingulate cortex; Great apes; Neocortex; Primates; Pyramidal neurons

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALRETININ; CELL PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHIMPANZEE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGED; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; GYRUS CINGULI; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 0035919858     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01964-4     Document Type: Article

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