Investigation of the complex descending innervation of the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the rat: A transneuronal tract-tracing study using pseudorabies virus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 337, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 151-154

  Helfferich, Frigyes ^a   Uhereczky, Gabriella ^b   Boldogkoi, Zsolt ^b   Vitéz, Lajos Csokonai ^a   Palkovits, Miklós ^b  

^a National Healthcare Center   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Auditory pathway; Dorsal cochlear nucleus; Pseudorabies virus; Viral tract tracing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CELL LABELING; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MONOAMINE NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STEREOTAXIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 0037434476     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01324-1     Document Type: Article

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