Indications for coupling between feline spinocervical tract neurones and midlumbar interneurones

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-46

  Djouhri, L ^a,c   Jankowska, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cat; Interneurones; Spinal cord; Spinocervical tract

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LATENT PERIOD; LUMBAR SPINE; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL REFLEX; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0031894695     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050317     Document Type: Article

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