Whisker motor cortex ablation and whisker movement patterns

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 191-198

  Gao, Puhong ^a   Hattox, Alexis M ^b   Jones, Lauren M ^b   Keller, Asaf ^b   Zeigler, H Philip ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CPG; Pattern generation; Rat; Sensorimotor; Vibrissae; Whisking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; DENERVATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0346250189     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220310001622924     Document Type: Article

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