A morphometric comparative study of the lateral geniculate body in selected placental mammals: The common shrew, the bank vole, the rabbit, and the fox

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 70-78

  Najdzion, J ^a   Wasilewska, B ^a   Bogus Nowakowska, K ^a   Rowniak M ^a   Szteyn, S ^a   Robak, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Lateral geniculate body; Morphometric analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CARNIVORA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FOX; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; INSECTIVORA; LAGOMORPH; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; RABBIT; RODENT; SHREW; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FOXES; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; NEURONS; RABBITS; SHREWS;

CARNIVORA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; EUTHERIA; INSECTIVORA; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 66749088767     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: 16443284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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