The neural control of orienting: Role of multiple-branching reticulospinal neurons

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 143, Issue , 2004, Pages 383-389

  Sasaki, Shigeto ^a   Yoshimura, Kazuya ^a   Naito, Kimisato ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; CELL ACTIVATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FORELIMB; GAZE; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; HEAD MOVEMENT; KINETICS; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPINAL CORD; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0344440917     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(03)43036-7     Document Type: Article

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