Resting discharge patterns of macular primary afferents in otoconia-deficient mice

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 490-505

  Jones, T A ^a,b   Jones, S M ^a   Hoffman, L F ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discharge patterns; Gravity receptors; Primary afferents of the macula; Resting activity; Sensory deprivation; Spontaneous activity; Vestibular ganglion cells; Vestibular macula; Vestibular spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAIR CELL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOUSE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC MACULAE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; GENOTYPE; GRAVITY SENSING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PHENOTYPE; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 55949102893     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-008-0132-0     Document Type: Article

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