Modeling the lowering of motoneuron voltage threshold during fictive locomotion

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 860, Issue , 1998, Pages 492-495

  Dai, Y ^a   Jones, K E ^a   Fedirchuk, B ^a   Krawitz, S ^a   Jordan, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; CAT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITABILITY; ION CONDUCTANCE; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINE; MESENCEPHALON; MODEL; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK;

EID: 0032413494     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09085.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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