Organization of pontocerebellar projections to identified climbing fiber zones in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 496, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 513-528

  Pijpers, Angelique ^a   Ruigrok, Tom J H ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inferior olive; Modules; Mossy fibers; Pontine nuclei; Somatotopy

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEBRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLIMBING FIBER; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; INFERIOR OLIVE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; FACE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HINDLIMB; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33744495790     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20940     Document Type: Article

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