Projection linkage from spinal neurons to both lateral cervical nucleus and solitary tract nucleus in the cat

NeuroSignals

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 38-44

  Meng, Zhuo ^a   Lu, Guo Wei ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cat; Intracellular recordings; Lateral cervical nucleus; Solitary tract nucleus; Spinal neurons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SPINAL NERVES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

FELIS CATUS; LAMIINAE;

EID: 0034001422     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: 14248638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000014621     Document Type: Article

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