Projections from the medial column of the inferior olive to different classes of rotation-sensitive Purkinje cells in the flocculus of pigeons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-100

  Wylie, Douglas R W ^a   Winship, Ian R ^a   Glover, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climbing fiber; Flocculus; Inferior olive; Optokinetic; Pigeon; Retrograde tracer; Vestibulocerebellum

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; INFERIOR OLIVE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CHOLERA TOXIN; COLUMBIDAE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PURKINJE CELLS; ROTATION;

EID: 0033580892     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00390-0     Document Type: Article

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