Input/output properties of the lateral vestibular nucleus

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 133-153

  Boyle, Richard ^a,b   Bush, G ^a   Ehsanian, R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN;

CAT; CELL SIZE; CERVICAL SPINE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INNER EAR; INNERVATION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MONKEY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE; SQUIRREL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL SIZE; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LYSINE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NECK MUSCLES; NEURONS; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; RATS; SAIMIRI; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS, LATERAL; VESTIBULE;

FELIS CATUS; SAIMIRI; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 2942705761     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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