Spontaneous motor activity in fetal and infant rats is organized into discrete multilimb bouts

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 328-336

  Robinson, Scott R ^a,b   Blumberg, Mark S ^a   Lane, Maura S ^b   Kreber, Lisa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FETUS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

EID: 0033929175     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.2.328     Document Type: Article

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