Primitive roles for inhibitory interneurons in developing frog spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 5840-5848

  Li, Wen Chang ^a   Higashijima, Shin Ichi ^b   Parry, D M ^a   Roberts, Alan ^a   Soffe, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycine; Inhibition; Interneuron; Locomotion; Spinal; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ENGRAILED PROTEIN; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FROG; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; TADPOLE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; LARVA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 3042772008     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1633-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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