Morphological and physiological identification of excitatory pontine reticular neurons projecting to the cat abducens nucleus and spinal cord

The current study provides strong morphological and physiological evidence for identifying reticular neurons which project to the ipsilateral abducens nucleus. In conjunction with recent work in the alert cat, these neurons are believed to be excitatory and are implicated to play a role in the generation of saccadic and/or vestibular fast phase eye movements.