Locations of the Motor Endplate Band and Motoneurons Innervating the Sternomastoid Muscle in the Rat

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 295-304

  Zhang, Xiaolin ^a   Mu, Liancai ^a   Su, Hungxi ^a   Sobotka, Stanislaw ^a  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spinal cord; Horseradish peroxidase; Medulla oblongata; Motoneurons; Motor endplate band; Motor endplates; Sternomastoid muscle; Wholemount acetylcholinesterase staining

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAINING; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; NECK MUSCLES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING;

ARMORACIA RUSTICANA; RATTUS;

EID: 78651451760     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21312     Document Type: Article

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