Rat claustrum coordinates but does not integrate somatosensory and motor cortical information

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 8583-8588

  Smith, Jared B ^a   Radhakrishnan, Harsha ^a   Alloway, Kevin D ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; CLAUSTRUM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEMISPHERE; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BIOTIN; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHODAMINES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84862896120     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1524-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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