Tuning and playing a motor rhythm: How metabotropic glutamate receptors orchestrate generation of motor patterns in the mammalian central nervous system

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 572, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 323-334

  Nistri, Andrea ^a   Ostroumov, Konstantin ^a   Sharifullina, Elina ^a   Taccola, Giuliano ^a  

^a DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM ION; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 2; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 3; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 4; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 6; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 7; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 8;

BRAIN STEM; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; EXCITABILITY; LAMPREY; MASTICATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR RHYTHM; OSCILLATION; SPINAL CORD; TONGUE; TURTLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ION CHANNELS; LAMPREYS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TONGUE; TURTLES;

EID: 33645510222     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.100610     Document Type: Review

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