Relation between cutaneous receptive fields and muscle afferent input to climbing fibres projecting to the cerebellar C3 zone in the cat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1769-1779

  Jorntell H ^a   Garwicz, M ^a   Ekerot, C F ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Inferior olive; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CAT; CEREBELLUM; CLIMBING FIBER; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORELIMB; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SKIN NERVE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

EID: 0029765076     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01320.x     Document Type: Article

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