Topographic organization of excitatory and inhibitory commissural connections in the superior colliculi and their functional roles in saccade generation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3146-3167

  Takahashi, M ^a   Sugiuchi, Y ^a   Shinoda, Y ^a,b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN REGION; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; CATS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78650856916     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00554.2010     Document Type: Article

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