Saccular and utricular inputs to sternocleidomastoid motoneurons of decerebrate cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 410-416

  Kushiro, K ^a   Zakir, M ^a   Ogawa, Y ^a   Sato, H ^a   Uchino, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Saccular nerve; Sternocleidomastoid motoneuron; Utricular nerve; Vestibulocollic reflex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LATENT PERIOD; MOTONEURON; NECK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; UTRICLE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MOTOR NEURONS; NECK MUSCLES; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033045897     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050747     Document Type: Article

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