Electrophysiological evidence that spinomesencephalic neurons in the cat may be excited via spinocervical tract collaterals

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 477-484

  Djouhri, L ^a   Meng, Z ^a,b   Brown, A G ^a   Short, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE; GALLAMINE TRIETHIODIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CERVICAL SPINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MESENCEPHALON; NECK; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030768339     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005775     Document Type: Article

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