Multisynaptic projections from the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex to the dorsal premotor cortex in macaques - anatomical substrate for conditional visuomotor behavior

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3365-3375

  Takahara, Daisuke ^a,b,c   Inoue, Ken ichi ^a,c   Hirata, Yoshihiro ^a,c   Miyachi, Shigehiro ^a   Nambu, Atsushi ^b,d   Takada, Masahiko ^a,c,d   Hoshi, Eiji ^c,d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor control; Rabies virus; Sensorimotor integration; Transneuronal transport

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ASSAY; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; MACACA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RABIES VIRUS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84869877418     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08251.x     Document Type: Article

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