Topic: abducens motoneurons

During Gaze stabilization extraocular muscles produce reflexive compensatory eye movements to fix the image on the retina. Among such a complex sensorimotor transformation the vestibulo-ocular reflexes (VOR), generating compensatory eye movements in response to head motion, require vestibular inputs which are integrated by extraocular motoneurons.In Xenopus larvae, the onset of the angular VOR (aVOR) is delayed compare to other visuo-vestibular reflexes. This delay could imply the existence of distinct parallel pathways in vestibulo-ocular networks, involving distinct motoneuron functional sub