Glycinergic inhibition contributes to the generation of rostral scratch motor patterns in the turtle spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3322-3333

  Currie, Scott N ^a   Lee, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

central pattern generator; inhibition; scratch reflex; spinal; strychnine; turtle

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; LEG MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SCRATCHING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TURTLE;

EID: 0030911849     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-09-03322.1997     Document Type: Article

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