A modelling study of locomotion-induced hyperpolarization of voltage threshold in cat lumbar motoneurones

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 544, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 521-536

  Dai, Yue ^a   Jones, Kelvin E ^a   Fedirchuk, Brent ^a   McCrea, David A ^a   Jordan, Larry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SODIUM CURRENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; CALCIUM CURRENT; DEPOLARIZATION; EXCITABILITY; LUMBAR MOTONEURON; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE REINNERVATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; SODIUM; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0037107436     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.026005     Document Type: Article

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