Premotor interneurons in generation of adaptive leg reflexes and voluntary movements in stick insects

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 512-531

  Kittmann, Rolf ^a,c   Schmitz, Josef ^b   Büschges, Ansgar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c The University   (Germany)

Author keywords

adaptive reflexes; distributed networks; motor pattern generation; multifunctional circuit; nonspiking interneurons; proprioceptive reflexes; reorganization; startle; walking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INSECT; INTERNEURON; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; TOUCH; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WALKING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; INTERNEURONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; ORTHOPTERA; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX; STARTLE REACTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0029830555     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199612)31:4<512::AID-NEU10>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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