Altered gravitational experience during early periods of life affects the static vestibule-ocular reflex of tadpoles of the Southern Clawed Toad, Xenopus laevis Daudin

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 213-222

  Sebastian, C ^a   Esseling K ^a   Horn, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Hypergravity; Microgravity; Vestibule ocular reflex; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; TOAD; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-55 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GRAVITATION; LARVA; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; WEIGHTLESSNESS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029824738     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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