Blink reflex to supraorbital nerve stimulation in the cat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 104-112

  LeDoux, Mark S ^a   Lorden, Joan F ^b   Weir, Angela D ^b   Smith, Jason M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Blink reflex; Cat; Clonidine; Orbicularis oculi; Yohimbine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BLINKING; CATS; CLONIDINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; REACTION TIME; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 0030804946     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005730     Document Type: Article

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