Central projections of the saccular and utricular nerves in macaques

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 466, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-47

  Newlands, Shawn D ^a   Vrabec, Jeffrey T ^a,c   Purcell, Ian M ^a,d   Stewart, C Matthew ^a   Zimmerman, Brett E ^a   Perachio, Adrian A ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotinylated dextran amine; Cerebellum; Neural anatomy; Otolith; Vestibular nerve; Vestibular nuclei

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CELL LABELING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; MACACA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCULUS; SENSE ORGAN; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CEREBELLUM; DEXTRANS; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0141481841     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10876     Document Type: Article

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