Brain-wide map of efferent projections from rat barrel cortex

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Zakiewicz, Izabela M ^a   Bjaalie, Jan G ^a   Leergaard, Trygve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anterograde transport; Axonal tracing; Brain atlas; Connectivity; Connectome; Neuroanatomical tract tracing; Neuroinformatics; Wiring diagram

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; FOREBRAIN; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PONTINE NUCLEUS; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; ZONA INCERTA;

EID: 84894075215     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00005     Document Type: Article

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