The percentage of interneurons in the dorsal striatum of the rat, cat, monkey and human: A critique of the evidence

Basal Ganglia

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-24

  Oorschot, Dorothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Calretinin; Cholinergic; Dorsal striatum; Interneurons; Parvalbumin; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALRETININ; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ARTICLE; CAT; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL TYPE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSAL STRIATUM; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEREOLOGY;

EID: 84875391272     PISSN: 22105336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baga.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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