The neuroanatomical basis of slow saccades in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (Wadia-subtype)

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue , 2008, Pages 575-581

  Geiner, S ^a   Horn, A K E ^a   Wadia, N H ^b   Sakai, H ^c   Buttner Ennever J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JASLOK HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

abducens motoneurons; horizontal excitatory burst neurons; inhibitory burst neurons; olivopontocerebellar atrophy; omnipause neurons; parvalbumin; synaptic density

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CASE REPORT; CELL LOSS; DEGENERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTONEURON; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 49349110834     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00683-3     Document Type: Chapter

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