Properties of utricular-activated vestibular neurons that project to the contralateral vestibular nuclei in the cat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 419-425

  Bai, R ^a   Meng, H ^a   Sato, H ^a   Imagawa, M ^a   Sasaki, M ^a   Uchino, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commissural fiber; Semicircular canal; Utricular; Vestibular nuclei

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0036448102     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1284-5     Document Type: Article

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