Firing Properties of Spinal Interneurons during Voluntary Movement. I. State-Dependent Regularity of Firing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 29, 2003, Pages 9600-9610

  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 BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREARM; INTERNEURON; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WRIST; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HAND; MACACA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HAND; INTERNEURONS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIODICITY; SPINAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS; WRIST;

EID: 0142244148     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-29-09600.2003     Document Type: Article

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