A monosynaptic pathway from dorsal cochlear nucleus to auditory cortex in rat

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 462-466

  Anderson, Lucy A ^a,b   Izquierdo, Marco A ^a   Antunes, Flora M ^a   Malmierca, Manuel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomical tracing; Auditory pathways; Cochlear nucleus complex; Dual tracing; Extra lemniscal pathways; Magnocellular pathway; Medial geniculate body

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN DERIVATIVE; FLUOROGOLD;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DENDRITE; FEMALE; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AXONS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FEMALE; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 63849121214     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328326f5ab     Document Type: Article

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