Coordination of spinal locomotor activity in the lamprey: Long-distance coupling of spinal oscillators

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-108

  McClellan, Andrew D ^a   Hagevik, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Inhibitory amino acids; Locomotion; Modeling; Oscillator coupling; Strychnine

Indexed keywords

STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER MODEL; IN VITRO STUDY; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE; SPINAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN STEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; LAMPREYS; LARVA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; OSCILLOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; STRYCHNINE;

EID: 0032938992     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050719     Document Type: Article

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