Retinal afferents synapse with relay cells targeting the middle temporal area in the pulvinar and lateral geniculate nuclei

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2010, Pages

  Warner, Claire E ^a   Goldshmit, Yona ^a   Bourne, James A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calciumbinding protein; Extrastriate areas; Neuronal tracing; Nonhuman primate; Synapse; Synaptophysin; Thalamus; V1

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CALLITRICHINAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; KONIOCELLULAR K1 LAYER; KONIOCELLULAR K3 LAYER; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PULVINAR GENICULATE NUCLEUS; RETINA NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77955702683     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.05.008.2010     Document Type: Article

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