Intersegmental coordination of walking movements in stick insects

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1255-1265

  Ludwar, Björn Ch ^a,b   Göritz, Marie L ^a,c   Schmidt, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CARAUSIUS MOROSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL CHORDOTONAL ORGAN; GAIT; GANGLION; INSECT; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE ORGAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STICK INSECT; TREADMILL; WALKING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PERIODICITY; PILOCARPINE; PROPRIOCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 14244260066     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00727.2004     Document Type: Article

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