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Commissural Connections Between the vestibular nuclei studied with the Method of Retrograde Transport of Horseradish Peroxidase

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Abstract

Labyrinthine impulses, originating from semicircular canal receptors and macular receptors of both sides, act on motoneurons innervating the extrinsic eye muscles and the body musculature via the vestibulo-ocular and the vestibulospinal reflex arcs. A close co-operation between the vestibular systems of both sides is required to produce changes in the motor output which results either in conjugated eye movements or in reciprocal patterns of responses of neck and limb extensors during the labyrinthine reflexes. There are several possibilities through which the labyrinthine input of one side may produce reciprocal changes in firing rate of contralateral vestibular neurons. However, the most likely one is that the labyrinthine input of one side is transmitted to the contralateral vestibular nuclei by commissural connections.

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  1. MRC Unit on Neural Mechanisms of Behaviour, UK

    I. Steele Russell

  2. Department of Physiology 1, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    M. W. van Hof

  3. Institute of Physiology, University of Pisa, Italy

    G. Berlucchi

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Pompeiano, O., Mergner, T., Corvaja, N. (1979). Commissural Connections Between the vestibular nuclei studied with the Method of Retrograde Transport of Horseradish Peroxidase. In: Russell, I.S., van Hof, M.W., Berlucchi, G. (eds) Structure and Function of Cerebral Commissures. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03645-5_25

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