Neuronal network generating locomotor behavior in lamprey: Circuitry, transmitters, membrane properties, and simulation

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue , 1991, Pages 169-199

  Grillner, Sten ^a   Wallén, Peter ^a   Brodin, Lennart ^a   Lansner, Anders ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central pattern generation; Locomotion; NMDA receptors; Sensory control; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FISH; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0026011636     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ne.14.030191.001125     Document Type: Review

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