Both oral and caudal parts of the spinal trigeminal nucleus project to the somatosensory thalamus in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 741-754

  Guy, Nathalie ^a   Chalus, Maryse ^a   Dallel, Radhouane ^a   Voisin, Daniel L ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Nociception; Orofacial; Retrograde tracing; Somatotopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 14944382819     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03918.x     Document Type: Article

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