The caudo ventral pontine tegmentum is involved in the generation of high velocity eye saccades in bursts during paradoxical sleep in the cat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-131

  Vanni Mercier, Giovanna ^a   Debilly, Gabriel ^a   Lin, Jian Sheng ^a   Pélisson, Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Carbachol; Cat; Caudal pontine tegmentum; Eye saccade dynamics; Paradoxical sleep; Ponto geniculo occipital waves

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0030564990     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12832-9     Document Type: Article

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