Medullary Efferent and Afferent Neurons of the Facial Nerve of the Pit Viper Gloydius brevicaudus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 472, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 345-357

  Atobe, Yoshitoshi ^a   Nakano, Masato ^a   Kadota, Tetsuo ^a   Hisajima, Tatsuya ^a   Goris, Richard C ^a   Funakoshi, Kengo ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor nucleus; Reticularis caloris nucleus; Snakes; Superior salivatory nucleus; Trigeminal descending nucleus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CHORDA TYMPANI; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EFFERENT NERVE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GANGLION; GLOYDIUS BREVICAUDUS; HYOMANDIBULAR NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MAXILLARY NERVE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PALATINE NERVE; PIT VIPER; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGOPALATINE GANGLION; RETICULARIS CALORIS NUCLEUS; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SNAKE; SUPERIOR SALIVARY NUCLEUS; TASTE BUD; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SNAKES; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 1842483158     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20081     Document Type: Article

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