The W cell pathway to cat primary visual cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 516, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-35

  Anderson, John C ^a   da Costa, Nuno Maçarico ^a   Martin, Kevan A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dLGN; Light and electron microscopy; Visual cortex; W pathway; X pathway; Y pathway

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INNERVATION; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX; W NERVE CELL; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CATS; DENDRITIC SPINES; DEXTRANS; GENICULATE BODIES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 69449094011     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22085     Document Type: Article

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