Processing of vestibular inputs by the medullary lateral tegmental field of conscious cats: Implications for generation of motion sickness

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 349-359

  McCall, Andrew A ^a   Moy, Jennifer D ^a   DeMayo, William M ^a,b   Puterbaugh, Sonya R ^a   Miller, Daniel J ^a,b   Catanzaro, Michael F ^a,b   Yates, Bill J ^a,b  

^a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Otolith organ; Semicircular canal; Sensorimotor integration; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; FENTANYL;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; FEMALE; LATERAL TEGMENTAL FIELD; MOTION SICKNESS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TILTING; TREATMENT DURATION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECEREBRATE STATE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 84877061292     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3376-1     Document Type: Article

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