Utricular sensitivity and preponderance assessed by the unilateral centrifugation test

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 13, Issue 4-6, 2003, Pages 227-234

  Wuyts, Floris L ^a   Hoppenbrouwers, Mieke ^a   Pauwels, Griet ^a   Van De Heyning, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ocular counterrolling; Unilateral centrifugation test; Unilateral vestibular deafferentiation; Utricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CENTRIFUGATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; OCULOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; UNILATERAL VESTIBULAR DEAFFERENTATION; UTRICLE;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRIFUGATION; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; TELEVISION; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 2342459768     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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