Projections from the dorsal and ventral cochlear nuclei to the medial geniculate body

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Schofield, Brett R ^a,b   Motts, Susan D ^c   Mellott, Jeffrey G ^a   Foster, Nichole L ^a,b  

^a Northeast Ohio Medical University   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collateral projections; Fear conditioning; Lemniscal pathway; Magnocellular pathway; Multimodal processing; Multipolar cells; T stellate; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; THALAMUS; VENTRAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 84896988875     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00010     Document Type: Article

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