Direct connection of the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis neurons with neck motoneurons in cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 527-530

  Sasaki, Shigeto ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Neck motoneuron; Nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis; Reticulospinal neuron; Single neuron EPSP

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; LATENT PERIOD; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTONEURON; NECK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SPIKE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; CATS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; NECK; PONS; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032837131     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050875     Document Type: Article

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