Reticulo-collicular projections: A neuronal tracing study in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 380, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 276-279

  Smit, Albertine Ellen ^a   Zerari Mailly, Fawzia ^b   Buisseret, Pierre ^c   Buisseret Delmas, Catherine ^b   VanderWerf, Frans ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Lab Neuroanatomie Fonct Syst S   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Blinking; Rat; Reticular formation; Retrograde tracer Gold HRP; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYELID MOVEMENT; EYELID REFLEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; RETICULOCOLLICULAR PROJECTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 18144423535     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.01.059     Document Type: Article

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