Slow temporal filtering may largely explain the transformation of stick insect (Carausius morosus) extensor motor neuron activity into muscle movement

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1718-1732

  Hooper, Scott L ^a,b   Guschlbauer, Christoph ^b   Von Uckermann, Géraldine ^b   Büschges, Ansgar ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARAUSIUS MOROSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; INSECT; LEG MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME PERCEPTION; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORTHOPTERA; WALKING;

EID: 34548726213     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01283.2006     Document Type: Article

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