THE RAT BRAIN IN STEREOTAXIC COORDINATES, 2nd Edition

Paxinos G, Watson C

San Diego: Academic Press, 1986.

Atlas and text on the brain structure of the laboratory rat (Rattus); English nomenclature; labeled photomicrographs in three planes of section with matching diagrams showing structure boundaries. The basic rules for generating unique abbreviations for structure names in NeuroNames were derived from this source, and insofar as possible, the abbreviations in NeuroNames match the abbreviations for homologous structures there.