Quantitative aspects of corticocortical connections: A tracer study in the mouse

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1474-1486

  Schüz, Almut ^a   Chaimow, Denis ^a   Liewald, Daniel ^a   Dortenman, Monika ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterograde; Cortex; Dextran amine; Divergence; Fiber density

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33749528724     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj085     Document Type: Article

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