Role of the flocculus in the development of vestibular compensation immunohistochemical studies with retrograde tracing and flocculectomy using Fos expression as a marker in the rat brainstem

Neuroscience

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 571-580

  Kitahara, T ^a   Takeda, N ^a   Saika, T ^a   Kubo, T ^a   Kiyama, H ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decompensation; Fluoro Gold dye; Labyrinthectomy; Neural plasticity; Nystagmus; Uvula nodulus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABYRINTHECTOMY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AVIDIN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOTIN; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; EAR, INNER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0031022115     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00374-0     Document Type: Article

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