Disynaptic vestibulospinal and reticulospinal excitation in cat lumbosacral motoneurons: Modulation during fictive locomotion

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 277-288

  Gossard, J P ^a,b   Floeter, M K ^a,c   Degtyarenko, A M ^a   Simon, E S ^a   Burke, R E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decerebrate cat; Deiters' nucleus; Fictive locomotion; Interneurons; Medial longitudinal fasciculus; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 0029923703     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00231787     Document Type: Article

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