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Evidence for Facial Nerve–Independent Mechanisms of Blinking in the Rat

PURPOSE. The rat facial nerve (CN VII) controls the orbicularis oculi (OO) muscle, which contracts to close the palpebral fissure during blinking. It was recently observed that rats are able to achieve nearly complete eye closure shortly after CN VII lesion, and hypothesized that the retractor bulbi...

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Hauptverfasser: Heaton, James T., Kowaleski, Jeffrey, Edwards, Colin, Smitson, Christopher, Hadlock, Tessa A.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc. 2010
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2869065/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19710413
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1167/iovs.08-3371
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