The motor infrastructure: From ion channels to neuronal networks

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 573-586

  Grillner, Sten ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; LAMPREY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CPG ISLAND; EYE MOVEMENT; GENE FUNCTION; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; VERTEBRATE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LAMPREYS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET;

PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042708264     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1137     Document Type: Article

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