Differential origin of projections from SI barrel cortex to the whisker representations in SII and MI

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 498, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 624-636

  Chakrabarti, Shubhodeep ^a   Alloway, Kevin D ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Double labeled neurons; Lemniscal; Motor cortex; Paralemniscal; Retrograde tracing; Secondary somatosensory cortex; Septa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLERA TOXIN; DEXTRANS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STILBAMIDINES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33748449504     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21052     Document Type: Article

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