Convection, buoyancy or endolymph expansion: What is the actual mechanism responsible for the caloric response of semicircular canals?

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 155-165

  Valli, Paolo ^a,d   Buizza, Angelo ^a   Botta, Laura ^a   Zucca, Giampiero ^a   Ghezzi, Luciano ^b   Valli, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b S Rita Hospital   (Italy)

^c Otoneurological Centre   (Italy)

^d Dept of Physiol/Pharmacol Science ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARANY TEST; BUOYANCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOLYMPH; FROG; GRAVITY; INNER EAR; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SENSE ORGAN; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CALORIC TESTS; CONVECTION; ENDOLYMPH; HEAT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0041528381     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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