Spatial characterization of the motor neuron columns supplying the rat forelimb

Neuroscience

Volumn 200, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-30

  Tosolini, A P ^a   Morris, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cervical spinal cord; Forelimb; Motor end plate; Motor neurons; Rat; Retrograde tracers

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FORELIMB; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STILBAMIDINES;

EID: 84855189300     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.10.054     Document Type: Article

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