Evoked excitability changes at the terminals of midlumbar premotor interneurons in the cat spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1512-1518

  Aggelopoulos, N C ^a   Chakrabarty, S ^a   Edgley, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

interneuron; muscle afferent; presynaptic inhibition; primary afferent depolarization; spinal cord; terminal excitability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; INTERNEURON; LUMBAR SPINE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIMARY AFFERENT DEPOLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031025166     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-04-01512.1997     Document Type: Article

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