Neuronal premotor networks involved in eyelid responses: Retrograde transneuronal tracing with rabies virus from the orbicularis oculi muscle in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 8808-8818

  Morcuende, Sara ^a   Delgado García, José Maria ^a   Ugolini, Gabriella ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Eyelid responses; Parietal cortex; Rabies virus; Rats; Red nucleus; Reflex blinks; Reticular formation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BLINKING; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EYELID REFLEX; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTERNEURON; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; RETICULAR FORMATION; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

EID: 0037109728     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-20-08808.2002     Document Type: Article

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