Breathing and calling: Neuronal networks in the Xenopus laevis hindbrain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 501, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 303-315

  Zornik, Erik ^a   Kelley, Darcy B ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Hindbrain; Isolated brain; Respiration; Song; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BREATHING; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HISTOLOGY; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LARYNX; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SINGING; VAGUS NERVE; VOCALIZATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GLOTTIS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; LARYNX; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33846899247     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21145     Document Type: Article

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