Delineation of motoneuron subgroups supplying individual eye muscles in the human oculomotor nucleus

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Che Ngwa, Emmanuel ^a,b   Zeeh, Christina ^a   Messoudi, Ahmed ^a   Büttner Ennever, Jean A ^a   Horn, Anja K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Fulda AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calretinin; Central caudal nucleus; Extraocular muscles; Eye movements; GABA; Glycine; Motoneurons; Nucleus of perlia

Indexed keywords

CALRETININ; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; UROCORTIN I;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL CAUDAL NUCLEUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; MOTONEURON; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROFILAMENT; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894037963     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00002     Document Type: Article

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