Sensorimotor Corticocortical Projections from Rat Barrel Cortex Have an Anisotropic Organization That Facilitates Integration of Inputs from Whiskers in the Same Row

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 466, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 525-544

  Hoffer, Zachary S ^a   Hoover, John E ^b   Alloway, Kevin D ^a,c  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracing; Convergence; Microstimulation; Motor cortex; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN REGION; CELL LABELING; HISTOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0142169930     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10895     Document Type: Article

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