Bidirectional neurones in the cervical enlargement of the cat spinal cord with axons descending to sacral segments and ascending to the cerebellum and the lateral reticular nucleus

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1059-1071

  Grottel, K ^a   Krutki, P ^a   Mrowczynski W ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CEREBELLUM; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SACRUM; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

EID: 0032733309     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-445X.1999.01898.x     Document Type: Article

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