Ventral medial nucleus neurons send thalamocortical afferents more widely and more preferentially to layer 1 than neurons of the ventral anterior-ventral lateral nuclear complex in the rat

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 221-235

  Kuramoto, Eriko ^a   Ohno, Sachi ^a,b   Furuta, Takahiro ^a   Unzai, Tomo ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhiro R ^a   Hioki, Hiroyuki ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Layer 1; Motor thalamic neurons; Sindbis viral vector; Singleneuron tracing; Ventral medial thalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VENTRAL ANTERIOR VENTRAL LATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 84922376037     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht216     Document Type: Article

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