Bending the lamprey spinal cord causes a slowly-decaying increase in the frequency of fictive swimming

Brain Research

Volumn 900, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-64

  Kiemel, Tim ^a   Cohen, Avis H ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Entrainment; Lamprey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; LAMPREYS; NOTOCHORD; PERIODICITY; SPINAL CORD; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 0035805161     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(01)02244-2     Document Type: Article

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