The edinger-westphal nucleus represents different functional cell groups in different species

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1164, Issue , 2009, Pages 45-50

  Horn, Anja K E ^a   Schulze, Christina ^a   Radtke Schuller, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Ciliary ganglion; Ferret; Human; Lens; Monkey; Oculomotor nucleus; Parasympathetic; Pupil; Rat; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; UROCORTIN;

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; CELL POPULATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CILIARY GANGLION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EDINGER WESTPHAL NUCLEUS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FERRET; HUMAN; MONKEY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLION; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PUPIL REFLEX; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MUSTELA; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 66149105798     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03856.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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