Divergent and point-to-point connections in the commissural pathway between the inferior colliculi

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 514, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 226-239

  Malmierca, Manuel S ^a,b   Hernández, Olga ^a,b   Antunes, Flora M ^a,b   Rees, Adrian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Computer assisted 3D reconstructions; Cytoarchitecture; Tonotopic organization; Tract tracing

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 65349091918     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21997     Document Type: Article

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