Primary sensory afferent innervation of the developing superficial dorsal horn in the South American opossum Monodelphis domestica

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 495, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-52

  Kitchener, Peter D ^a   Hutton, Elspeth J ^b   Knott, Graham W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbocyanine Dye; Development; Marsupial; Sensory afferent; Spinal cord; Synapse; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

1,1' DIOCTADECYL 3,3,3',3' TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE; AGGLUTININ; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GRIFFONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA AGGLUTININ ISOLECTIN B4; LECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MARSUPIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SUPERFICIAL DORSAL HORN; SYNAPTOGENESIS; THICKNESS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CARBOCYANINES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EXTREMITIES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GROWTH CONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MONODELPHIS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PLANT LECTINS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 32544455302     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20864     Document Type: Article

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