Modelling spinal circuitry involved in locomotor pattern generation: Insights from deletions during fictive locomotion

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 577, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 617-639

  Rybak, Ilya A ^a   Shevtsova, Natalia A ^a,b   Lafreniere Roula, Myriam ^c   McCrea, David A ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; COMPUTER MODEL; DECEREBRATION; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; PATTERN FORMATION NETWORK; RHYTHM GENERATOR; SPINAL CIRCUITRY; SPINAL CORD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECEREBRATE STATE; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERIODICITY; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751322988     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.118703     Document Type: Article

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