These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Integration of oral mechanoreception of amphibia].
    Author: Rapuzzi G, Gilberti Vitali G, Illa Balduini A.
    Journal: Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper; 1980 Sep 15; 56(17):1739-44. PubMed ID: 7459094.
    Abstract:
    The study concerns the effects obtained at the medulla by electrical stimulation of mechanoreceptive afferences associated to the hyomandibularis nerve and branches of V and VII cranial nerves of the frog. Each of the afferences examined activates both nuclei of XI and XII in spite of the different medullary input; this action is very similar to that carried out by the mechanoreceptor afferences coming from papillae fungiformes. These result show very well the common ability of all the afferences coming from the mouth to obtain a similar action at the medulla. These properties suggest a convergence of the oral mechanoreceptor information on a mechanism of integration in order to obtain a coordination of the tongue and oesophagus motor reflex.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]