Telencephalic Input to the Pretectum of Pigeons: An Electrophysiological and Pharmacological Inactivation Study

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 274-285

  Crowder, Nathan A ^a   Dickson, Clayton T ^a   Wylie, Douglas R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LATENT PERIOD; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; OSCILLATION; PIGEON; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LIDOCAINE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0347719204     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00763.2003     Document Type: Article

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