Lumbar commissural interneurons with reticulospinal inputs in the cat: Morphology and discharge patterns during fictive locomotion

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 474, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 546-561

  Matsuyama, Kiyoji ^a,b   Nakajima, Katsumi ^a   Mori, Futoshi ^a   Aoki, Mamoru ^b   Mori, Shigemi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Decerebrate cat; Intraaxonal; Locomotor rhythm; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CAT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DECEREBRATION; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CATS; DENERVATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 2642586571     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20131     Document Type: Article

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