The construction of movement by the spinal cord

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 162-167

  Tresch, Matthew C ^a,b   Saltiel, Philippe ^a   Bizzi, Emilio ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FROG; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HINDLIMB; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANA CATESBEIANA; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033365630     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5721     Document Type: Article

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