Observations on the giraffe central nervous system related to the corticospinal tract, motor cortex and spinal cord: What difference does a long neck make?

Neuroscience

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 522-534

  Badlangana, N L ^a   Bhagwandin, A ^a   Fuxe, K ^b   Manger, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

evolution; immunohistochemistry; Mammalia; movement; spinal cord; striatum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAPSULA INTERNA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORPUS STRIATUM; GIRAFFE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD; UNGULATE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NECK; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34548505308     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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