Properties of saccular nerve-activated vestibulospinal neurons in cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 381-388

  Sato, Hitoshi ^a   Imagawa, Midori ^a   Isu, Naoki ^b   Uchino, Yoshio ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Lateral vestibulospinal tract; Medial vestibulospinal tract; Saccular nerve; Vestibular nuclei; Vestibulospinal neuron

Indexed keywords

TUNGSTEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCULAR NERVE; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SPINAL CORD; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0030752562     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005766     Document Type: Article

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