Unimodal primary sensory cortices are directly connected by long-range horizontal projections in the rat sensory cortex

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Stehberg, Jimmy ^a,b   Dang, Phat T ^a   Frostig, Ron D ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde; BDA; Border crossing; CTb; Long range projections; Multisensory integration; Primary sensory cortex; Retrograde

Indexed keywords

BIOTINYLATED DEXTRAN AMINE; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; NEURONAL TRACT TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORTICAL STRUCTURE FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX;

EID: 84907580183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00093     Document Type: Article

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