Anatomical evidence of subcortical contributions to the orientation selectivity and columns of the cat's primary visual cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 324, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 247-251

  Zhan, Xiping ^a   Shou, Tiande ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

1,1 Dioctadecyl 3,3,3,3 tetramethylin docarbocyanine perchlolate; Biocytin; Column; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Optical imaging; Orientation selectivity; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

1,1' DIOCTADECYL 3,3,3',3' TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE; BIOCYTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CARBOCYANINES; CATS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENICULATE BODIES; LYSINE; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0037166053     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00205-7     Document Type: Article

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