How do we approach the locomotor network in the mammalian spinal cord?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 860, Issue , 1998, Pages 70-82

  Hultborn, Hans ^a   Conway, B A ^b   Gossard, J P ^c   Brownstone, R ^d   Fedirchuk, B ^d   Schomburg, E D ^e   Enriquez Denton M ^f   Perreault, M C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NIALAMIDE;

CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; RHYTHM; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; VERTEBRATE;

FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032426170     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09039.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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