Strychnine eliminates alternating motor output during fictive locomotion in the lamprey

Brain Research

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 164-167

  Cohen, Avis H ^a   Harris Warrick, Ronald M ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

central pattern generator; lamprey; locomotion; oscillator; spinal cord; strychnine

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; FISH; INTOXICATION; LOCOMOTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FISHES; LAMPREYS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; SPINAL CORD; STRYCHNINE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021327225     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(84)91464-1     Document Type: Article

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