Effect of posture on the onset of fictive locomotion in the decerebrate rabbit preparation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-12

  Bonnot, Agnès ^a   Bouc, Anne Marie ^a   Viala, Denise ^a   Viala, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Locomotor onset; Posture; Rabbit; Spinal interneurones

Indexed keywords

CURARE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0029931985     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12533-7     Document Type: Article

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