Ultrastructural evidence for direct excitatory retroambiguus projections to cutaneous trunci and abdominal external oblique muscle motoneurons in the cat

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 249-256

  Boers, J ^a   Kirkwood, P A ^b   De Weerd, H ^a   Holstege, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Mating; Medulla; Respiration

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; MATING TYPE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT;

EID: 29244477507     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.08.011     Document Type: Article

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