... described in the central lateral line system of teleost fish at levels higher than the medulla, and evidence for midbrain lateral line maps in fish is still weak. We found two classes of units with different response patterns in the central lateral line nucleus in the torus semicircularis of the goldfish...

... escape pressor response brain stem hypothalamus midbrain medulla turtle In the mammalian heart, cardiac arrest and resultant anoxia produced by vagal stimulation are transitory: cessation of heart beat lasts for only a short time before the heart resumes beating in spite of continued...

...Roger B. Coles; Masakazu Konishi; John D. Pettigrew ABSTRACT The frequency sensitivity of hearing in the grey swiftlet, Collocalia spodiopygia , was determined by neuronal recordings from the auditory midbrain (MLD). The most sensitive best frequency response thresholds occurred between 0·8 and 4·7...