The anatomical identification of saccadic omnipause neurons in the rat brainstem

Neuroscience

Volumn 210, Issue , 2012, Pages 191-199

  Hittinger, M ^a,b   Horn, A K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Oculomotor; Raphe nuclei; Reticular formation; Rodents

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; SEROTONIN;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OMNIPAUSE NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ROSTRAL INTERSTITIAL NUCLEUS OF THE MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; NEURONS; RATS; SACCADES;

EID: 84861198905     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.02.048     Document Type: Article

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