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Maturation of thalamic inputs in neocortical association areas during postnatal development in cats

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Formation of thalamofrontal and thalamoparietal connections in kittens during the first month of life was studied by the retrograde axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase method. In the early stages of postnatal development, association nuclei of the thalamus as well as its specific structures were shown to have cortical projections. Structural formation of the thalamo-parietal system also was shown to take place earlier than that of the thalamo-frontal system. The results indicate differences in location of cortical projections of the ventral lateral and ventral anterior thalamic nuclei and also a difference in the times at which their efferent fibers grow into the cerebral cortex.

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  1. G. A. Tolchenova
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A. A. Ukhtomskii Physiological Institute, Leningrad State University. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 11–18, January–February, 1984.

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Tolchenova, G.A., Shikhgasanova, I.S. & Batuev, A.S. Maturation of thalamic inputs in neocortical association areas during postnatal development in cats. Neurophysiology 16, 8–14 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052820

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