Pathways controlling trigeminal and auditory nerve-evoked abducens eyeblink reflexes in pond turtles

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 207-222

  Zhu, Dantong ^a   Keifer, Joyce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abducens; Auditory; Conditioning; Eyeblink; In vitro; Reptiles; Trigeminal; Turtles

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TURTLE;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BLINKING; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PONS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SYNAPSES; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TURTLES;

EMYDIDAE; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 5644268976     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080242     Document Type: Article

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