Plasticity of auditory medullary-midbrain connectivity across metamorphic development in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-19

  Horowitz, Seth S ^a,b   Chapman, Judith A ^a   Simmons, Andrea Megela ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anurans; Cholera toxin; Dorsal medullary nucleus; Lipophilic dyes; Metamorphosis; PHA L; Superior olivary complex; Tadpoles; Torus semicircularis; Vestibular nucleus complex

Indexed keywords

DYE; LIPOPHILIC DYE; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BULLFROG; CELL PROLIFERATION; DORSAL MEDULLARY NUCLEUS; HEARING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOTOPE LABELING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; METAMORPHOSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TADPOLE; TORUS SEMICIRCULARIS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RANA CATESBEIANA; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS, LATERAL;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; CACOSTERNUM; RANA CATESBEIANA;

EID: 33748941957     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000095027     Document Type: Article

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