Modular organization of turtle spinal interneurons during normal and deletion fictive rostral scratching

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 6800-6809

  Stein, Paul S G ^a   Daniels McQueen, Susan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Fictive motor patterns; Half center; Reciprocal inhibition; Scratch reflex; Spinal cord; Turtle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRATCHING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE; TURTLE;

EID: 0036703892     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-15-06800.2002     Document Type: Article

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