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Oculomotor nerve structure

Known as: Nerve IIIs, Nerve, Third Cranial, Nerves, Third Cranial 
The 3d cranial nerve. The oculomotor nerve sends motor fibers to the levator muscles of the eyelid and to the superior rectus, inferior rectus, and… 
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1998
1998
Ophthalmoplegic and lower cranial nerve variants merge into each other and into classical Guillain‐Barré syndrome
We delineated the place of cranial nerve variants within the concept of clinically defined Guillain‐Barré syndrome (GBS). In the… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Isolated pupil-sparing third-nerve palsy as the presenting sign of multiple sclerosis.
A 27-year-old man presented with an isolated, pupil-sparing, partial third-nerve palsy. Etiologic investigations proved… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Distribution of neurons expressing calcitonin gene-related peptide mRNAS in the brain stem, spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia of rat and guinea-pig
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Divisional oculomotor nerve paresis caused by intrinsic brainstem disease
Two patients with findings ascribable to superior branch oculomotor nerve paresis and one patient with findings ascribable to an… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
The release of acetylcholine from post‐ganglionic cell bodies in response to depolarization.
1. Acetylcholine (Ach) release from parasympathetic ganglia cell somata was investigated in denervated avian ciliary ganglia… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Afferents to oculomotor nuclei from area “y” in Macaca mulatta: An anterograde degeneration study
  • G. B. Stanton
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 1980
  • Corpus ID: 29853077
Electrolytic lesions were placed in the dentate and interpositus nuclei of the monkey M. mulatta and the resulting anterograde… 
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1975
Highly Cited
1975
The structural basis for electrotonic coupling in the avian ciliary ganglion. A study with thin sectioning and freeze-fracturing
SummaryEach ‘ciliary’ neurone in the ciliary ganglion of adult birds receives its innervation from a single myelinated fibre of… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Statocyst-Induced Eye Movements in the Crab Scylla Serrata
1. The fast and slow eye movements of nystagmus in crabs can be produced by moving a striped pattern around the animal or by… 
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1968
Highly Cited
1968
Peripheral pathway of eye muscle proprioception.
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1964
Highly Cited
1964
THE MEGADOLICHOBASILAR ANOMALY.
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