Effects of lesion of pontomedullary reticular formation on visually triggered vertical and oblique head orienting movements in alert cats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-16

  Sasaki, Shigeto ^a   Isa, Tadashi ^b   Naito, Kimisato ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropol Inst N   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Head orienting; Kainic acid lesion; Oblique head rotation; Pontomedullary reticular formation; Vertical head rotation

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD TILTING; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; MOTONEURON; NECK; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; KAINIC ACID; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PONS; RETICULAR FORMATION;

EID: 0033537936     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00184-6     Document Type: Article

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