Eye Muscle Nerves Nuclear Size in a Breed of Domestic Rabbits with Floppy Ears

Journal of Brain Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 401-408

  Rehkämper, Gerd ^a   Frahm, Heiko D ^a   Dion, Marie ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abducens nucleus; Allometry; Directional hearing; Oculomotor nucleus; Trochlear nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EXTERNAL EAR; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; EAR, EXTERNAL; HEARING; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; ORGAN SIZE; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0347989338     PISSN: 09448160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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