Avian nucleus retroambigualis: Cell types and projections to other respiratory-vocal nuclei in the brain of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 512, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 768-783

  Wild, J Martin ^a   Kubke, M F ^a   Mooney, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; PAm; RA; RAm; Respiration; Vocal learning; XIIts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING MUSCLE; CELL LABELING; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FINCH; FOWL; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; INFERIOR OLIVE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATION CENTER; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL SHAPE; FINCHES; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RESPIRATORY CENTER; SPINAL CORD; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 59649093011     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21932     Document Type: Article

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