Modelling spinal circuitry involved in locomotor pattern generation: Insights from the effects of afferent stimulation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 577, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 641-658

  Rybak, Ilya A ^a   Stecina, Katinka ^b   Shevtsova, Natalia A ^a,c   McCrea, David A ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR REFLEX; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; CAT; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; COMPUTER MODEL; DECEREBRATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; PATTERN FORMATION NETWORK; REFLEX; RHYTHM GENERATOR; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CIRCUITRY;

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

EID: 33751337094     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.118711     Document Type: Article

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