Coordination of locomotor activity in the lamprey: Role of descending drive to oscillators along the spinal cord

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 481-490

  Hagevik, André ^a   McClellan, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Central pattern generators; Locomotion; Locomotor command systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; LAMPREYS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OSCILLOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032862764     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050871     Document Type: Article

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