Distribution of ganglion cells in the pigeon retina labeled via retrograde transneuronal transport of the fluorescent dye rhodamine β-isothiocyanate from the telencephalic visual Wulst

Brain Research

Volumn 1098, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-105

  Miceli, Dom ^a,b   Repérant, Jacques ^a,b   Medina, Monique ^b   Volle, Michel ^a   Rio, Jean Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Pigeon; Retinal ganglion cell; RITC; Thalamofugal system; Transneuronal tracing; Vision; Wulst

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; ISOTHIOCYANIC ACID; RHODAMINE; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LABELING INDEX; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PLANT STOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; COLUMBIDAE; FLUORESCENT DYES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURONS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RHODAMINES; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS;

AVES; COLUMBA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33748045803     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.091     Document Type: Article

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