An Architectonic study of the neocortex of the short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 206-228

  Wong, Peiyan ^a   Kaas, Jon H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Cingulate cortex; Cortical areas; Frontal cortex; Marsupial; Retrosplenial cortex; Somatosensory cortex; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; EPITOPE; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; MYELIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; EPITOPE MAPPING; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYELINATION; NEOCORTEX; NISSL SUBSTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MONODELPHIS; MYELIN SHEATH; NEOCORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PARVALBUMINS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 67449164251     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000225381     Document Type: Article

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