GABAergic neurons in the rostral mesencephalon of the macaque monkey that control vertical eye movements

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1004, Issue , 2003, Pages 19-28

  Horn, Anja K E ^a   Helmchen, Christoph ^b   Wahle, Petra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interstitial nucleus of Cajal; Rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fascicle; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COILED BODY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MACACA; MESENCEPHALON; MONKEY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 1942502829     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1303.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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