Supraspinal and segmental signals can be transmitted through separate spinal cord pathways to enhance locomotor activity in extensor muscles in the cat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 188-192

  Leblond, Hugues ^a   Gossard, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Decerebrate cat; Fictive locomotion; Lateral vestibulospinal tract; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA; NIALAMIDE;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; FEMALE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0030942427     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005619     Document Type: Article

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