Quantitative comparisons of corticothalamic topography within the ventrobasal complex and the posterior nucleus of the rodent thalamus

Brain Research

Volumn 968, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-68

  Alloway, Kevin D ^a   Hoffer, Zachary S ^a   Hoover, John E ^b  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracing; Convergence; Corticothalamic projection; Somatotopic organization

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; TOPOGRAPHY; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0037418652     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)04265-8     Document Type: Article

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