Morphological classification of the rat lateral cerebellar nuclear neurons by principal component analysis

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 455, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-155

  Sultan, Fahad ^a   Czubayko, Uwe ^a   Thier, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Dentate nucleus; Interneuron; Phylogeny; Spatial organization; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; DENDRITES; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037420978     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10443     Document Type: Article

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