Segregation of behavior-specific synaptic inputs to a vertebrate neuronal oscillator

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 9010-9019

  Juranek, Jenifer ^a   Metzner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication behavior; Eigenmannia; Input resistance; Jamming avoidance response; Pacemaker nucleus; Parallel pathways; Premotor control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CELL STRUCTURE; CHANNEL GATING; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTRIC FISH; INTERNEURON; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0032211095     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-21-09010.1998     Document Type: Article

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