Spinal cholinergic neurons activated during locomotion: Localization and electrophysiological characterization

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3537-3547

  Huang, A ^a   Noga, B R ^a,b   Carr, P A ^a,c   Fedirchuk, B ^a   Jordan, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0034047405     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.6.3537     Document Type: Article

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