Abducens Nucleus

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A nucleus which contains both motoneurons and interneurons. The motoneurons send direct projections to the lateral rectus muscles. The interneurons send projections via the medial longitudinal fasiculus to the contralateral medial rectus motoneurons neurons.

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2008). Abducens Nucleus. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_8

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_8
Published: 24 January 2024
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