Synaptic inputs and their pathways from fixation and saccade zones of the superior colliculus to inhibitory burst neurons and pause neurons

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1039, Issue , 2005, Pages 209-219

  Takahashi, Mayu ^a   Sugiuchi, Yuriko ^a   Izawa, Yoshiko ^a   Shinoda, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abducens motoneuron; Fixation neuron; Inhibitory burst neuron (IBN); Pause neuron (PN); Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EYE FIXATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE;

EID: 22144442044     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1325.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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