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Long-range Channelrhodopsin-assisted Circuit Mapping of Inferior Colliculus Neurons with Blue and Red-shifted Channelrhodopsins
Published on: February 7, 2020
[Comparative study of the dorso-medial nucleus of the inferior colliculus]
Abstract:
The comparative study by network analysis of the dorso-median nucleus of the inferior colliculus has been performed in the adult and new born cat, the adult rat and the adult monkey. For each animal, the two previously recognized types of cells have been identified. However the number of each type of cells is different. The 2 order cells have the same volume in the rat, the adult cat and the monkey. The 3 order cells are larger in the monkey and the cat than in the rat. The number and the volume of the different types of cells is similar in the ventro-lateral nucleus of the adult cat and in the dorso-medial nucleus of the new born cat.
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