Responses of neurons in the caudal medullary lateral tegmental field to visceral inputs and vestibular stimulation in vertical planes

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 303, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Moy, Jennifer D ^a   Miller, Daniel J ^a   Catanzaro, Michael F ^a   Boyle, Bret M ^a   Ogburn, Sarah W ^a   Cotter, Lucy A ^a   Yates, Bill J ^a   McCall, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion sickness; Nausea; Otolith organ; Semicircular canal; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

COPPER SULFATE; EMETIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CAROTID SINUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL TEGMENTAL FIELD; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PALLOR; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; TEGMENTUM; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VOMITING; ANIMAL; CAT; MECHANICAL STRESS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; VESTIBULE; VISCERA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAROTID SINUS PRESSORECEPTOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; CATS; EMETICS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTION SICKNESS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PRESSORECEPTORS; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISCERA; VOMITING;

EID: 84868379223     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00356.2012     Document Type: Article

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