Two types of thalamocortical projections from the motor thalamic nuclei of the rat: A single neuron-tracing study using viral vectors

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2065-2077

  Kuramoto, Eriko ^a   Furuta, Takahiro ^a   Nakamura, Kouichi C ^a,b   Unzai, Tomo ^a   Hioki, Hiroyuki ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Layer I; Motor thalamic neurons; Sindbis viral vector; Single neuron tracing; Ventral anterior ventral lateral complex

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PALMITOYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SINDBIS VIRUS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SINDBIS VIRUS; THALAMUS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 68849091329     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn231     Document Type: Article

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