Functional identification of the input-output transforms of motoneurones in the rat and cat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 504, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 401-424

  Poliakov, Andrew V ^a,b   Powers, Randall K ^a   Binder, Marc D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; LATENT PERIOD; LUMBAR SPINE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNAPSE; WHITE NOISE; CELL ASSAY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREDICTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MATHEMATICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030721539     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.401be.x     Document Type: Article

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