Firing Properties of Spinal Interneurons during Voluntary Movement. II. Interactions between Spinal Neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 29, 2003, Pages 9611-9619

  Prut, Yifat ^b   Perlmutter, Steve I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Firing pattern; Interneurons; Motor control; Primates; Spinal cord; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; FOREARM; INTERNEURON; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WRIST; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; MACACA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INTERNEURONS; MACACA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WRIST;

EID: 0142182055     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-29-09611.2003     Document Type: Article

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