Axonal ramification of neurons in the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis projecting to the paramedian lobule in the rabbit cerebellum

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-24

  Bukowska, Dorota ^a   Mierzejewska Krzyowska, Barbara ^a   Zguczyński, Leszek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Double labeling; Nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis; Paramedian lobule; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARAMEDIAN LOBULE; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; FEMALE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; RABBITS; RETICULAR FORMATION;

EID: 10444258098     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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