Saccular and utricular inputs to single vestibular neurons in cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 406-415

  Kushiro, K ^a   Zakir, M ^a   Sato, H ^a   Ono, S ^a   Ogawa, Y ^a   Meng, H ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Uchino, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convergence; Horizontal plane; Linear acceleration; Otolith; Vertical plane

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CAT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; OTOLITH; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCULUS; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL REFLEX; TROCHLEAR NERVE; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 0034034175     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002219900312     Document Type: Article

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