Morphology and ontogeny of rat perirhinal cortical neurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 505, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 493-510

  Furtak, Sharon Christine ^a   Moyer Jr , James Russell ^b   Brown, Thomas Huntington ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Golgi Cox; Laminar distribution; Medial temporal lobe; Nonpyramidal; Periallocortex; Pyramidal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL SHAPE; MALE; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILVER STAINING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 36049014035     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21516     Document Type: Article

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