Overground locomotion in intact rats: Interlimb coordination, support patterns and support phases duration

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-144

  Górska, Teresa ^a   Zmysłowski, Wojciech ^b   Majczyński, Henryk ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

Interlimb coordination; Overground locomotion; Rat; Support patterns

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; DOG; FORELIMB; GAIT; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RUNNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDING; TIME; VELOCITY; WALKING;

ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS;

EID: 17144435943     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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