Role of nucleus retroambigualis in respiratory reflexes evoked by superior laryngeal and vestibular nerve afferents and in emesis

Brain Research

Volumn 769, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 347-356

  Umezaki, Toshiro ^a   Zheng, Yu ^a   Shiba, Keisuke ^a   Miller, Alan D ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscle; Diaphragm; Swallowing; Upper airway; Ventral respiratory group; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; NEUROTOXIN;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BREATHING REFLEX; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; MOTONEURON; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; SWALLOWING; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VOCALIZATION; VOMITING;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; KAINIC ACID; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REFLEX; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VOMITING;

EID: 0030862461     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00756-7     Document Type: Article

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