Diffusion tensor imaging in studying white matter complexity: A gap junction hypothesis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 475, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 161-164

  Abdallah, Chadi G ^a   Tang, Cheuk Y ^d   Mathew, Sanjay J ^d   Martinez, Jose ^d   Hof, Patrick R ^d   Perera, Tarique D ^b,c   Shungu, Dikoma C ^f   Gorman, Jack M ^e   Coplan, Jeremy D ^a,b,c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Univ S Carolina Sch Med Vice P   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Gap junctions; Neurodevelopment; Neuroimaging; Nonhuman primates; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GAP JUNCTION; HYPOTHESIS; MACACA; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GAP JUNCTIONS; MACACA RADIATA;

EID: 77952551170     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.03.070     Document Type: Article

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