The Transition from Development to Motor Control Function in the Corticospinal System

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 605-614

  Meng, Zhuo ^a   Li, Qun ^a   Martin, John H ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Corticospinal system; Development; Motor cortex; Postnatal; Postnatal cord; Spinal; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCULOCUTANEOUS NERVE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0842305793     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4313-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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