Evaluation of inputs to rat primary auditory cortex from the suprageniculate nucleus and extrastriate visual cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3679-3700

  Smith, Philip H ^a   Manning, Karen A ^a   Uhlrich, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Feedback projection; Multisensory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BIOCYTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRASTRIATE VISUAL CORTEX; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS SUPRAGENICULATE NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AXONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; POSTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77955686015     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22411     Document Type: Article

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