Effects of pyramidal tract stimulation on forelimb flexor motoneurons during fictive locomotion in cats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-198

  Seki, K ^a   Kudo, N ^a   Kolb, F ^c   Yamaguchi, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Corticospinal tract; Decerebrate cat; Stepping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DECEREBRATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORELIMB; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030857824     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00516-8     Document Type: Article

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