Facial nerve injury induces facilitation of responses in both trigeminal and facial nuclei of rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 358, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-225

  Kis, Zsolt ^a   Rákos, Gabriella ^a   Farkas, Tamás ^a   Horváth, Szatmár ^a   Toldi, József ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Facial nucleus; Functional loop; Plasticity; Principal trigeminal nucleus; Trigeminal nerve; Vibrissa sensorimotor system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DENERVATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PONS; RATS; REFLEX; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 1642404669     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.01.037     Document Type: Article

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