Motoneurons have different membrane resistance during fictive scratching and weight support

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 8259-8265

  Perreault, Marie Claude ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Chloride; Glycine; Locomotion; Membrane conductance; Postsynaptic inhibition; Spinal cord; Synaptic integration

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MICROELECTRODE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SCRATCHING; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TIME;

EID: 0037107161     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-18-08259.2002     Document Type: Article

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