Distribution of contacts from vestibulospinal axons on the dendrites of splenius motoneurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 491, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 339-351

  Grande, Giovanbattista ^a   Armstrong, Stacey ^a   Neuber Hess, Monica ^a   Rose, P K ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Head movement; Input output properties of motoneurons; Spatial segregation; Synaptic integration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NECK MUSCLE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPLENIUS MOTONEURON; SPLENIUS MUSCLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULOSPINAL AXON;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; DENDRITES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NECK MUSCLES; SYNAPSES; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 25444525441     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20699     Document Type: Article

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