The basilar pontine nuclei and the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis subserve distinct cerebrocerebellar pathways

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue , 2005, Pages 259-282

  Cicirata, Federico ^a   Serapide, Maria Francesca ^a   Parenti, Rosalba ^a   Pantò, Maria Rosita ^a   Zappalà, Agata ^a   Nicotra, Annalisa ^a   Cicero, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BDA: biotine dextrane amine; BPN: basilar pontine nuclei; CC: cerebellar cortex; CN: cerebellar nuclei; mcp: medial cerebellar peduncle; NI: nucleus interpositalis; NIA: nucleus interpositalis anterioris; NIP: nucleus interpositalis posterioris

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; INNERVATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PONS ANGLE; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THALAMUS MEDIALIS CENTRALIS NUCLEUS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 12344264569     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(04)48021-2     Document Type: Review

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