Functional Compartmentalization in the Flocculus and the Ventral Dentate and Dorsal Group y Nuclei: An Analysis of Single Olivocerebellar Axonal Morphology

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 470, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-133

  Sugihara, Izumi ^a   Ebata, Shigeto ^a   Shinoda, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellar nucleus; Cerebellum; Climbing fiber; Inferior olive; Rat; Vestibular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; CELL COMPOSITION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLIMBING FIBER; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INFERIOR OLIVE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CEREBELLUM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0742270435     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10952     Document Type: Article

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