Bistable characteristics of motoneurone activity during DOPA induced fictive locomotion in spinal cats

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-56

  Schomburg, Eike Dieter ^a   Steffens, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

DOPA; Fictive locomotion; Membrane bistability; Plateau potentials; Spinal cat

Indexed keywords

DOPA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECAPITATION; DEPOLARIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL ROOT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; DENERVATION; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; DOPAMINE AGENTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURONS; PARALYSIS; PERIODICITY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030245593     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-0102(96)01073-5     Document Type: Article

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