Evidence for functional compartmentalization of trigeminal muscle spindle afferents during fictive mastication in the rabbit

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1145-1154

  Westberg, K G ^d   Kolta, A ^a,c   Clavelou, P ^b   Sandstrom G ^d   Lund, J P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Antidromic action potentials; Brain stem; Mastication; Muscle spindle afferents; Primary afferent depolarization; Trigeminal mesencephalic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MALE; MASTICATION; MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AFFERENT DEPOLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; JAW; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPINDLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RABBITS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0034049489     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00001.x     Document Type: Article

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