Sensory Activation and Role of Inhibitory Reticulospinal Neurons that Stop Swimming in Hatchling Frog Tadpoles

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 4229-4240

  Perrins, Ray ^a   Walford, Alison ^a   Roberts, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Central pattern generator; GABA; Locomotion; Trigeminal; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIOTIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GABAERGIC RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; NEUROBIOTIN; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FROG; HEAD; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; TADPOLE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE TRACT; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STIMULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABA AGENTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; LARVA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; STRYCHNINE; SWIMMING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037095679     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-10-04229.2002     Document Type: Article

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