Optomotor behaviour in Xenopus Laevis tadpoles as a measure of the effect of gravity on visual and vestibular neural integration

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2689-2701

  Pronych, Scott P ^a   Souza, Kenneth A ^a,b   Neff, Anton W ^a,c   Wassersug, Richard J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity; Microgravity; Neural integration; Optomotor behaviour; Tadpole; Vestibulo ocular reflex; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GRAVITY; LARVA; MANNED; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; STS-47 SHUTTLE PROJECT; SWIMMING; VESTIBULE; VISION; WEIGHTLESSNESS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-47 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; LARVA; SPACE FLIGHT; SWIMMING; VESTIBULE; VISION; WEIGHTLESSNESS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 2342640250     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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