Corticofugal modulation of acoustically induced fos expression in the rat auditory pathway

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 501, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 509-525

  Sun, Xia ^a,b,c,d   Xia, Qiang ^c   Lia, Chun Hong ^b   Shum, Daisy Kwok Yan ^b,e   Chan, Ying Shing ^b,e   He, Jufang ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Activity marker; Audition; Cochlear nucleus; Inferior colliculus; Medial geniculate body; Superior olive

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE METHOBROMIDE; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL COUNT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BICUCULLINE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NEURONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 34247231059     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21249     Document Type: Article

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