Laminar and modular organization of prefrontal projections to multiple thalamic nuclei

Neuroscience

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1067-1081

  Xiao, D ^a   Zikopoulos, B ^a   Barbas, H ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior thalamic nuclei; cortico thalamic pathway; layer V pyramidal neurons; Macaca mulatta; mediodorsal thalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORY SYSTEM; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 66049121530     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.04.034     Document Type: Article

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