Pump neurons of the nucleus of the solitary tract project widely to the medulla

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-126

  Ezure, Kazuhisa ^a   Tanaka, Ikuko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antidromic mapping; Axonal projections; Cat medulla; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Pump cell; Respiration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030572711     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12968-2     Document Type: Article

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