Pyramidal cell specialization in the occipitotemporal cortex of the vervet monkey

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 967-970

  Elston, Guy N ^a,b   Benavides Piccione, Ruth ^c   Elston, Alejandra ^a   Manger, Paul ^b   DeFelipe, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lucifer Yellow; Primate; Sholl; Spines; V1

Indexed keywords

LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; INFERIOR PARIETAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MACACA; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL OPERCULUM; PARIETAL LOBE; PARIETOOCCIPITAL GYRUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; MALE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 21344437017     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200506210-00017     Document Type: Article

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