Rat subthalamic nucleus and zona incerta share extensively overlapped representations of cortical functional territories

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 522, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 4043-4056

  Kita, Takako ^a   Osten, Pavel ^b   Kita, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

AB_10000343; AB_221569; AB_2298772; Cerebral cortex; Subthalamic nucleus; Subthalamus; Zona incerta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LENTIVIRINAE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL SENSORY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SUBTHALAMUS; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; ZONA INCERTA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENTIVIRUS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ZONA INCERTA;

EID: 84911489869     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23655     Document Type: Article

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