Development of metabotropic glutamate receptors from trigeminal nuclei to barrel cortex in postnatal mouse

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 409, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 549-566

  Muñoz, Alberto ^a,b   Liu, Xiao Bo ^a,c   Jones, Edward G ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Excitatory; Immunocytochemistry; Somatosensory; Ventrobasal thalamus

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOARCHITECTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 17444435351     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990712)409:4<549::AID-CNE3>3.3.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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