The number of postsynaptic currents necessary to produce locomotor- related cyclic information in neurons in the neonatal rat spinal cord

Neuron

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 729-738

  Raastad, Morten ^a   Johnson, Bruce R ^a,b   Kiehn, Ole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Seeley Mudd Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030273254     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80204-4     Document Type: Article

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