Neuronal basis of crossed actions from the reticular formation on feline hindlimb motoneurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1867-1878

  Jankowska, Elzbieta ^a,c   Hammar, Ingela ^a   Slawinska, Urszula ^a   Maleszak, Katarzyna ^a   Edgley, Stephen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Box 432 ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Commissural neurons; Interneurons; Motoneurons; Reticulospinal neurons; Spinal cord; Spinal neuronal networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; INTERNEURON; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB MOVEMENT; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; STIMULUS; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0037338360     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-05-01867.2003     Document Type: Article

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