Reticular Formation
"Reticular Formation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A region extending from the PONS & MEDULLA OBLONGATA through the MESENCEPHALON, characterized by a diversity of neurons of various sizes and shapes, arranged in different aggregations and enmeshed in a complicated fiber network.
| Descriptor ID |
D012154
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.132.772
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| Concept/Terms |
Reticular Formation- Reticular Formation
- Formation, Reticular
- Formations, Reticular
- Reticular Formations
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Reticular Formation" by people in Profiles.
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Braud A, Vandenbeuch A, Zerari-Mailly F, Boucher Y. Dental afferents project onto gustatory neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract. J Dent Res. 2012 Feb; 91(2):215-20.
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Casagrand JL, Guzik AL, Eaton RC. Mauthner and reticulospinal responses to the onset of acoustic pressure and acceleration stimuli. J Neurophysiol. 1999 Sep; 82(3):1422-37.
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Kanwal JS, Finger TE. Parallel medullary gustatospinal pathways in a catfish: possible neural substrates for taste-mediated food search. J Neurosci. 1997 Jun 15; 17(12):4873-85.
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Eaton RC, DiDomenico R, Nissanov J. Role of the Mauthner cell in sensorimotor integration by the brain stem escape network. Brain Behav Evol. 1991; 37(5):272-85.
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Eaton RC, DiDomenico R, Nissanov J. Flexible body dynamics of the goldfish C-start: implications for reticulospinal command mechanisms. J Neurosci. 1988 Aug; 8(8):2758-68.
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Finger TE. Cerebellar afferents in teleost catfish (Ictaluridae). J Comp Neurol. 1978 Sep 01; 181(1):173-81.
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Reite M, Stephens L, Bixler EO, Koestler AG, Rhodes JM. Rapid decompression in a chimpanzee with implanted electrodes: a case report. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1967 Jul; 23(1):91.