Topography of cortical projections to the dorsolateral neostriatum in rats: Multiple overlapping sensorimotor pathways

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 499, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-48

  Alloway, Kevin D ^a,b   Lou, Li ^a   Nwabueze Ogbo, Fidel ^a   Chakrabarti, Shubhodeep ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Motor cortex; Retrograde tracing; Sensorimotor integration; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOSTRIATUM; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; TOPOGRAPHY; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLERA TOXIN; DEXTRANS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STILBAMIDINES;

EID: 33748866247     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21039     Document Type: Article

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