Organization of left-right coordination in the mammalian locomotor network

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 107-117

  Butt, Simon J B ^a   Lebret, James M ^a   Kiehn, Ole ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Commissural interneurons; CPG; Motor neuron; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HINDLIMB; INTERNEURON; LAMPREY; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; TADPOLE; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FISHES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETICS; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; NERVE NET; RATS; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0036824701     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(02)00194-7     Document Type: Review

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