Pyramidal neurons of granular prefrontal cortex of the galago: Complexity in evolution of the psychic cell in primates

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 610-618

  Elston, Guy N ^a   Elston, Alejandra ^a   Casagrande, Vivien ^b   Kaas, Jon H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Dendrite; Extrastriate; Lucifer yellow; Spine; Striate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EVOLUTION; MACACA; MALE; MARMOSET; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AOTIDAE; BRAIN MAPPING; CALLITHRIX; EVOLUTION; GALAGO; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; GALAGO; MARMOSETS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 23244458685     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20198     Document Type: Article

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