Anatomy of the auditory thalamocortical system in the mongolian gerbil: Nuclear origins and cortical field-, layer-, and frequency-specificities

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 522, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2397-2430

  Saldeitis, Katja ^a   Happel, Max F K ^a,b   Ohl, Frank W ^a,b,c   Scheich, Henning ^a,c   Budinger, Eike ^a,b,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Medial geniculate body; Nissl; Rodent; Tonotopy

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; LYSINE;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DORSAL GENICULATE BODY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENICULATE BODY; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MEDIAL GENICULATE DEEP DORSAL NUCLEUS BODY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TONOTOPY; VENTRAL GENICULATE BODY; VENTRAL GENICULATE PARS LATERALIS BODY; VENTRAL GENICULATE PARS OVOIDEA BODY; VENTRAL GENICULATE ROSTRAL POLE BODY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; GERBIL; HEARING; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AXONS; GERBILLINAE; LYSINE; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84898682110     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23540     Document Type: Article

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