Pretectal projections to the oculomotor complex of the monkey and their role in eye movements

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 366, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 348-359

  Buttner Ennever J A ^a   Cohen, B ^b   Horn, A K E ^a   Reisine, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

extraocular motoneurons; near response; nucleus of the optic tract; optokinetic nystagmus; pretectal olivary nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; MONKEY; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0030029458     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960304)366:2<348::AID-CNE12>3.3.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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