Horizontal eye movement networks in primates as revealed by retrograde transneuronal transfer of rabies virus: Differences in monosynaptic input to "slow" and "fast" abducens motoneurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 498, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 762-785

  Ugolini, Gabriella ^a,b   Klam, Francois ^b   Dans, Maria Doldan ^a   Dubayle, David ^b   Brandi, Anne Marie ^b   Büttner Ennever, Jean ^c   Graf, Werner ^b,d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE NEUROBIOLOGIE CELLULAIRE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixation; Saccades; Smooth pursuit; Vergence; Vestibulo ocular

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 33745746763     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21092     Document Type: Article

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