Commissural propriospinal connections between the lateral aspects of laminae III-IV in the lumbar spinal cord of rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 480, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 364-377

  Petkó, Mihály ^a   Veress, Gábor ^a   Vereb, György ^a   Storm Mathisen, Jon ^b   Antal, Miklós ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Amino acid neurotransmitters; Immunocytochemistry; Neural tracing; Propriospinal neurons; Spinal dorsal horn

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLYCINE; METENKEPHALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROPRIOCEPTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 9744250156     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20356     Document Type: Article

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