Quantitative Morphological Analysis of the Motoneurons Innervating Muscles Involved in Tongue Movements of the Frog Rana esculenta

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 470, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 409-421

  Birinyi, András ^a,b   Szekely, George ^a,b   Csapó, Krisztina ^a   Matesz, Clara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Cobalt labeling; Dendritic orientation; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FROG; GEOMETRY; INNERVATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOTONEURON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TONGUE; TONGUE INNER MUSCLE; TONGUE PROTRACTOR MUSCLE; TONGUE RETRACTOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANA ESCULENTA; TONGUE;

EID: 1242342006     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20006     Document Type: Article

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