Thalamocortical projections to rat auditory cortex from the ventral and dorsal divisions of the medial geniculate nucleus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-51

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

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

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; GABA; Medial geniculate nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BIOCYTIN; DEXTRAN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STAINING AND LABELING; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 81255144610     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22682     Document Type: Article

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