Properties of horizontal semicircular canal nerve-activated vestibulospinal neurons in cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 478-486

  Sugita, Akemi ^a,b   Bai, Rishu ^b   Imagawa, Midori ^b   Sato, Hitoshi ^b   Sasaki, Mitsuyoshi ^b   Kitajima, Naoharu ^b   Koizuka, Izumi ^a   Uchino, Yoshio ^b  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Horizontal semicircular canal; Vestibulo ocular reflex; Vestibulo oculo spinal neuron; Vestibulospinal reflex; Vestibulospinal tract

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NECK MUSCLES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REFLEX; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; SPINAL CORD; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 3042567038     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1805-x     Document Type: Article

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