Responses of gerbil utricular afferents to translational motion

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 317-322

  Purcell, Ian M ^b   Newlands, Shawn D ^a   Perachio, Adrian A ^a  

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

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gerbil; Response dynamics; Utricle; Vestibular afferents; Vestibular nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GERBIL; HEAD MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; MOTION; NEURONS; ROTATION; SACCULE AND UTRICLE;

EID: 0141674989     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1530-5     Document Type: Article

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