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Central Nervous System

Known as: Structures of the central nervous system, Axis, Cerebrospinal, System, Central Nervous 
The main information-processing organs of the nervous system, consisting of the brain, spinal cord, and meninges.
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Postnatal mouse subventricular zone neuronal precursors can migrate and differentiate within multiple levels of the developing neuraxis.
The mammalian subventricular zone (SVZ) of the lateral wall of the forebrain ventricle retains a population of proliferating… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Localization of natriuretic peptide‐activated guanylate cyclase mRNAs in the rat brain
Physiological actions of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and C‐type natriuretic peptide (CNP) are elaborated by membrane‐bound… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Immunochemical localization of calcium/calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase I
Ca2+/calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase I (CaM kinase I) was originally identified in rat brain based on its ability to… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Neuronal organization underlying visually elicited prey orienting in the frog—II. Anatomical studies on the laterality of central projections
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
An intracellular study of the synaptic input to sympathetic preganglionic neurones of the third thoracic segment of the cat.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Early appearance in neural crest and crest-derived cells of an antigenic determinant present in avian neurons.
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Spino‐bulbar, spino‐thalamic and medial lemniscal connections in the american opossum, Didelphis marsupialis virginiana
Projections from the spinal cord and dorsal column nuclei to more rostral levels of the neuraxis were investigated in seventeen… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Spinal and supraspinal components of the reflex discharges into lumbar and thoracic white rami
1. In chloralose anaesthetized cats reflex discharges in thoracic and lumbar white rami were elicited by single shock stimulation… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
A general method for silvering invertebrate central nervous systems
Summary The best-known silvering methods are less successful with invertebrate than with vertebrate central nervous tissue. They… 
Highly Cited
1958
Highly Cited
1958
On the functional connections of single units in the central nervous system of the crayfish, Procambarus clarkii girard
  • C. Wiersma
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 1958
  • Corpus ID: 10444971
I n previous publications it has been shown that it is possible to isolate single functional interneurons in the circumesophageal… 
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