The long-term resetting of a brainstem pacemaker nucleus by synaptic input: A model for sensorimotor adaptation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 8287-8296

  Oestreich, Jörg ^a   Zakon, Harold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity increase; Brainstem; Cellular memory; Central pattern generator; Intrinsic excitability; Long term; Neural integrator; NMDA receptor; Pacemaker; Postsynaptic plasticity; Resetting; Sensorimotor adaptation; Vertebrate; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FISH; ETHOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037107188     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-18-08287.2002     Document Type: Article

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