A morphological analysis of thalamocortical axon fibers of rat posterior thalamic nuclei: A single neuron tracing study with viral vectors

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2840-2857

  Ohno, Sachi ^a,b   Kuramoto, Eriko ^a   Furuta, Takahiro ^a   Hioki, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhiro R ^a   Fujiyama, Fumino ^a,c   Sonomura, Takahiro ^b   Uemura, Masanori ^b   Sugiyama, Kazuna ^b   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

calbindin immunoreactivity; primary somatosensory cortex; rostral sector of posterior thalamic nuclei; Sindbis virus

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINDBIS VIRUS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENETIC VECTORS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SINDBIS VIRUS; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84869038782     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr356     Document Type: Article

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