Afferent input from distal forelimb nerves to branching spinoreticular-spinocerebellar neurones in the cat

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 271-276

  Krutki, Piotr ^a   Mrówczyiński, Włodzimierz ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cat; Cerebellum; Divergence; Forelimb afferents; LRN

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FORELIMB; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RETICULAR FORMATION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SKIN SENSATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FORELIMB; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; RETICULAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACTS;

EID: 0036914788     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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