Not by spikes alone: Responses of coordinating neurons and the swimmeret system to local differences in excitation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 436-450

  Mulloney, Brian ^a,b   Hall, Wendy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NPB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAYFISH; EXCITATION; GANGLION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CORD; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; SWIMMING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846426871     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00580.2006     Document Type: Article

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