Differential morphology of pyramidal tract-type and intratelencephalically projecting-type corticostriatal neurons and their intrastriatal terminals in rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 457, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 420-440

  Reiner, Anton ^a,b   Jiao, Yun ^a   Del Mar, Nobel ^a   Laverghetta, Antonio Vincent ^a   Lei, Wan Long ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde labeling; Cortex; Corticostriatal projection; Corticostriatatal projection neurons; Retrograde tracing; Striatum

Indexed keywords

TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE DEXTRAN AMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE FIXATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0037468114     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10541     Document Type: Article

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