What generates whisking? Focus on: "The whisking rhythm generator: A novel mammalian network for the generation of movement"

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1883-1884

  Castro Alamancos, Manuel A ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN;

EDITORIAL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SODIUM CURRENT; VIBRISSA; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIODICITY; RATS; SEROTONIN; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33947163297     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01358.2006     Document Type: Editorial

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