Anatomical evidence that the superior colliculus controls saccades through central mesencephalic reticular formation gating of omnipause neuron activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 16285-16296

  Wang, Niping ^a   Perkins, Eddie ^a,b   Zhou, Lan ^b   Warren, Susan ^a   May, Paul J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OMNIPAUSE NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURONS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84885109961     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2726-11.2013     Document Type: Article

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