Response of vestibular-nerve afferents to active and passive rotations under normal conditions and after unilateral labyrinthectomy

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1503-1514

  Sadeghi, Soroush G ^a   Minor, Lloyd B ^b   Cullen, Kathleen E ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Physiology ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA NERVE FIBER; HEAD MOVEMENT; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LABYRINTHECTOMY; MACACA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROTATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR TEST; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EAR, INNER; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NECK; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROTATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 33846939976     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00829.2006     Document Type: Article

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