Persistence of spinocerebellar afferent topography following hereditary Purkinje cell degeneration

Cerebellum

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-38

  Tolbert, Daniel L ^a   Knight, Teresa L ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Afferent topography; Mutant; Neuronal degeneration; Purkinje cells; Spinocerebellar pathways

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DISORDER; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT; ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CERVICAL SPINE; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; REFERENCE VALUE; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0043163871     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14734220309427     Document Type: Article

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