Vertical eye movement-related type II neurons with downward on-directions in the vestibular nucleus in alert cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 401-412

  Niwa, Masatoshi ^a   Chimoto, Sohei ^a   Iwamoto, Yoshiki ^a   Yoshida, Kaoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alert cat; Eye position; Integrator; Saccade; Vestibular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; HEAD MOVEMENT; HISTOLOGY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; EYE MOVEMENTS; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SACCADES; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 2442713823     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1750-8     Document Type: Article

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