Limb movements during embryonic development in the chick: Evidence for a continuum in limb motor control antecedent to locomotion

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 4401-4411

  Bradley, Nina S ^a   Solanki, Dhara ^a   Zhao, Dawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY GROWTH; CHICKEN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FORELIMB; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGING; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CHICK EMBRYO; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTREMITIES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME;

EID: 28044438367     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00804.2005     Document Type: Article

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