Whisker movements evoked by stimulation of single motor neurons in the facial nucleus of the rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2821-2832

  Herfst, Lucas J ^a,b   Brecht, Michael ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; PONS; RATS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 46149084687     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01014.2007     Document Type: Article

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