Commissural mirror-symmetric excitation and reciprocal inhibition between the two superior colliculi and their roles in vertical and horizontal eye movements

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2664-2682

  Takahashi, M ^a   Sugiuchi, Y ^a   Shinoda, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC EXCITATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 36249030530     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00696.2007     Document Type: Article

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