V1 spinal neurons regulate the speed of vertebrate locomotor outputs

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7081, 2006, Pages 215-219

  Gosgnach, Simon ^a   Lanuza, Guillermo M ^a   Butt, Simon J B ^b,d   Saueressig, Harald ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Velasquez, Tomoko ^a   Riethmacher, Dieter ^c   Callaway, Edward M ^a   Kiehn, Ole ^b   Goulding, Martyn ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; ENZYME INHIBITION;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS (CPG); LOCOMOTOR NETWORKS; SPINAL INTERNEURON CELL;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ENGRAILED1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644854885     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04545     Document Type: Article

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