Pharmacologically evoked fictive motor patterns in the acutely spinalized marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus)

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 351-361

  Fedirchuk, B ^a   Nielsen, J ^b   Petersen, N ^c   Hultborn, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Clonidine; Intrathecal application; Locomotion; Mesencephalic locomotor region; Monkey

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; LEVODOPA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MARMOSET; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CALLITHRIX; CLONIDINE; DENERVATION; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; DINOPROST; DOPAMINE AGENTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR NEURONS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PERIODICITY; PERONEAL NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD; SYMPATHOLYTICS;

EID: 0031717798     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050523     Document Type: Article

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