Regional specialization in pyramidal cell structure in the limbic cortex of the vervet monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus): An intracellular injection study of the anterior and posterior cingulate gyrus

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-323

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine; Intracellular injection; Lucifer Yellow; Sholl; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CINGULATE GYRUS; DENDRITIC SPINE; LIMBIC CORTEX; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; GYRUS CINGULI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 23844472744     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0043-9     Document Type: Article

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