Functional circuits mediating sensorimotor integration: Quantitative comparisons of projections from rodent barrel cortex to primary motor cortex, neostriatum, superior colliculus, and the pons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 488, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 82-100

  Hoffer, Zachary S ^a   Arantes, Henry B ^a   Roth, Richard L ^a   Alloway, Kevin D ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracers; Corticocortical; Corticopontine; Corticostriatal; Corticotectal; Motor; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 20044392004     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20579     Document Type: Article

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