Central visual system of the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)

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

Volumn 288, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-212

  Crish, Samuel D ^a   Dengler Crish, Christine M ^a   Catania, Kenneth C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind; Brain; Evolution; Eye; Superior colliculus; Vision

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; FEMALE; INNERVATION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LIGHT; MALE; MOLE RAT; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OPTIC NERVE; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VETERINARY ANATOMY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; EYE; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLE RATS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; RATS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; RODENTIA;

EID: 32144433183     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20288     Document Type: Article

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