"Masticatory Muscles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Muscles arising in the zygomatic arch that close the jaw. Their nerve supply is masseteric from the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve. (From Stedman, 25th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D008410
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.633.567.600 A14.530
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| Concept/Terms |
Masticatory Muscles- Masticatory Muscles
- Masticatory Muscle
- Muscle, Masticatory
- Muscles, Masticatory
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| 1994 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Masticatory Muscles" by people in Profiles.
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Bout R, Zeigler HP. Drinking behavior and jaw muscle (EMG) activity in the pigeon (Columba livia). J Comp Physiol A. 1994 Apr; 174(4):443-50.
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Bout R, Zeigler HP. Jaw muscle (EMG) activity and amplitude scaling of jaw movements during eating in pigeon (Columba livia) J Comp Physiol A. 1994 Apr; 174(4):433-42.
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Bermejo R, Zeigler HP. Trigeminal deafferentation and prehension in the pigeon. Behav Brain Res. 1989 Oct 01; 35(1):55-61.
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Bermejo R, Zeigler HP. Prehension in the pigeon. II. Kinematic analysis. Exp Brain Res. 1989; 75(3):577-85.
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Bermejo R, Allan RW, Houben AD, Deich JD, Zeigler HP. Prehension in the pigeon. I. Descriptive analysis. Exp Brain Res. 1989; 75(3):569-76.
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Deich J, Klein B, Zeigler HP. Grasping in the pigeon: mechanisms of motor control. Brain Res. 1985 Jul 01; 337(2):362-7.
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Berkhoudt H, Klein BG, Zeigler HP. Afferents to the trigeminal and facial motor nuclei in pigeon (Columba livia L.): central connections of jaw motoneurons. J Comp Neurol. 1982 Aug 10; 209(3):301-12.