Morphology and axonal projection pattern of neurons in the telencephalon of the fire-bellied toad Bombina orientalis: An anterograde, retrograde, and intracellular biocytin labeling study

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 478, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-61

  Roth, Gerhard ^a,b   Mühlenbrock Lenter, Sabine ^a   Grunwald, Wolfgang ^a   Laberge, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Hanse Institute for Advanced Study   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Amygdala; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Nucleus accumbens; Pallidum; Striatum

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXOPLASM FLOW; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LABELING INDEX; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SUBICULUM; TELENCEPHALON; TOAD; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; ANURA; EVOLUTION; LYSINE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 4444220817     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20265     Document Type: Article

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