Dendritic bundles, minicolumns, columns, and cortical output units

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue MARCH, 2010, Pages

  Innocenti, Giorgio M ^a   Vercelli, Alessandro ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apical dendrite; Cerebral cortex; Projection; Pyramidal neuron

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERIKARYON; PHYLOGENY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 77954167304     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.05.011.2010     Document Type: Review

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