Identification and characterization of rat orbicularis oculi motoneurons using confocal laser scanning microscopy

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 10-19

  Faulkner, Billie ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b   Evinger, Craig ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal imaging; Eyeblink reflex; Facial motor nucleus; Orbicularis oculi motoneurons; Rat; Retrograde labeling

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FLUORESCENT DYE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DENDRITE; EYELID REFLEX; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BLINKING; DENDRITES; EYELIDS; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FLUORESCENT DYES; INJECTIONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030789481     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005729     Document Type: Article

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