Evidence for facial nerve-independent mechanisms of blinking in the rat

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 179-182

  Heaton, James T ^a   Kowaleski, Jeffrey ^b   Edwards, Colin ^b   Smitson, Christopher ^b   Hadlock, Tessa A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; EYE MOVEMENT; EYELID CLOSURE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYELID; INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BLINKING; EYELIDS; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 75749097771     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3371     Document Type: Article

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