Expression of NMDAR1 in the human fetal amygdala and the adjacent ganglionic eminence

Neuroembryology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-42

  Ulfig, Norbert ^a   Bohl, Jürgen ^b   Setzer, Matthias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENCEPHALE ISOLE; ETHICS; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FROZEN SECTION; GANGLION; GERMANY; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0344708485     PISSN: 14248522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068499     Document Type: Article

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