Motor pattern switching in the heartbeat pattern generator of the medicinal leech: Membrane properties and lack of synaptic interaction in switch interneurons

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 311-324

  Lu, J ^a   Gramoll, S ^a,b   Schmidt, J ^a,b   Calabrese, R L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic clamp; Leech; Motor pattern switching; Single electrode voltage clamp

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033103514     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050329     Document Type: Article

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