Effects of electrode penetrations into the abducens nucleus of the monkey: Eye movement recordings and histopathological evaluation of the nuclei and lateral rectus muscles

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 180-188

  McClung, J R ^a   Cullen, K E ^b   Shall, M S ^a   Dimitrova, D M ^a   Goldberg, S J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abducens nucleus; Lateral rectus muscle; Motoneuron; Polyneuronal innervation

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ABDUCENS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; NEUROPIL; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; RHESUS MONKEY; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETICS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PONS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH;

EID: 4644368387     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-1892-3     Document Type: Article

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