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In order to establish a timetable for the developmental descent of supraspinal descending projections in the rat, a retrograde neuronal tracer was injected into the spinal cord of rat fetuses and neonates both at different gestational ages and at different levels of the spinal cord. From the results of these experiments a position interval could be deduced for the leading descending fibers of each spinal-projecting nucleus at each age studied. The chronological series of position intervals of each supraspinal descending projection (the descent pattern) depicts the descent of its fiber front during development and allows for easy comparison between the various projections.
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Lakke, E.A.J.F. (1997). Summary. In: The Projections to the Spinal Cord of the Rat During Development: A Timetable of Descent. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60601-4_7
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