Ultrastructural evidence for a direct excitatory pathway from the nucleus retroambiguus to lateral longissimus and quadratus lumborum motoneurons in the female golden hamster

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 480, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 352-363

  Gerrits, Peter O ^a   Mouton, Leonora J ^a   De Weerd, Henk ^a   Georgiadis, Janniko R ^a   Krukerink, Marco ^a   Holstege, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lordosis; Periaqueductal gray, emotional motor system; Sex, motor control; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACK; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HAMSTER; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; LEG; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MATING; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; STEREOTYPY; TAIL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESOCRICETUS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; POSTURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 9744264884     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20366     Document Type: Article

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