Projections of primary afferent fibers to last-order premotor interneurons in the lumbar spinal cord of rats

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-343

  Wéber, Ildikó ^a   Puskár, Zita ^a   Kozák, Norbert ^a   Antal, Miklós ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biotinylated dextran amine; Cholera toxin B subunit; Immunocytochemistry; Spinal motor apparatus; Tract tracing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX, MONOSYNAPTIC; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33845975992     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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