Red nucleus neurons actively contribute to the acquisition of classically conditioned eyelid responses in rabbits

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 12129-12143

  Pacheco Calderón, Renny ^a   Carretero Guillén, Alejandro ^a   Delgado García, José M ^a   Gruart, Agnès ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; HISTOLOGY; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RED NUCLEUS; SPIKE; STIMULATION;

EID: 84865447809     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1782-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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