Development of the corticothalamic projections

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Grant, Eleanor ^a   Hoerder Suabedissen, Anna ^a   Molnár, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Layer 5; Layer 6; LGN; Reticular thalamic nucleus; Subplate; VB

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

BRAIN CORTEX; CAPSULA INTERNA; CORRIDOR CELL; CORTICOTHALAMIC TRACT; DIENCEPHALON; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MEDIAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 84862211647     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00053     Document Type: Review

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