Patterns of convergence in rat zona incerta from the trigeminal nuclear complex: Light and electron microscopic study

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 507, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1521-1541

  Simpson, Kimberly ^a,b   Wang, Yue ^a   Lin, Rick C S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; GABA; Orienting; Somatosensory; Superior colliculus; Ventral thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MICROSCOPY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA; ZONA INCERTA; ANIMAL; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE TRACT; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTOSOME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SUBTHALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 40749135915     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21624     Document Type: Article

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