Corticothalamic projections from the rat primary somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 7381-7384

  Killackey, Herbert P ^b   Sherman, S Murray ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Cortex; First order; Higher order; Somatosensory; Thalamus; Ventral posterior nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INJECTION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; INJECTIONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0042237848     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-19-07381.2003     Document Type: Article

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