Two populations of corticothalamic and interareal corticocortical cells in the subgranular layers of the mouse primary sensory cortices

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1678-1686

  Petrof, Iraklis ^a   Viaene, Angela N ^a   Sherman, S Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticocortical; Corticofugal; Corticothalamic; Fluorescence; Retrograde labeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTHALAMIC CELL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; INTERAREAL CORTICOCORTICAL CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEURONS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84859317521     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23006     Document Type: Article

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