Spinal ascending pathways in amphibians: Cells of origin and main targets

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 378, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 205-228

  Munoz A ^a,b   Munoz M ^a   Gonzalez A ^a   Ten Donkelaar, H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ascending sensory pathways; evolution; somatosensory systems; thalamus; torus semicircularis

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FROG; MESENCEPHALON; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 1842372720     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970210)378:2<205::AID-CNE5>3.3.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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