Single motor unit activity in human extraocular muscles during the vestibulo-ocular reflex

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3091-3101

  Weber, Konrad P ^a   Rosengren, Sally M ^a,b   Michels, Rike ^a   Sturm, Veit ^a   Straumann, Dominik ^a   Landau, Klara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE; INFERIOR RECTUS MUSCLE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VIBRATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SOUND; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84862988463     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.226225     Document Type: Article

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