Organization of tectopontine terminals within the pontine nuclei of the rat and their spatial relationship to terminals from the visual and somatosensory cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 484, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 283-298

  Schwarz, Cornelius ^a,c   Horowski, Anja ^a   Möck, Martin ^a,b   Thier, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Pontine nuclei; Superior colliculus; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PONS ANGLE; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 14644394240     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20461     Document Type: Article

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