Coordination of limb movements: Three types of intersegmental interneurons in the swimmeret system and their responses to changes in excitation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2437-2450

  Namba, Hisaaki ^a,b   Mulloney, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CRAYFISH; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATION; GANGLION; INTERNEURON; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 0033055139     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.81.5.2437     Document Type: Article

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