Role of type-specific neuron properties in a spinal cord motor network

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-77

  Sautois, Bart ^a   Soffe, Stephen R ^b   Li, Wen Chang ^b   Roberts, Alan ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CPG; NMDA; Swimming; Tadpole model; Type specificity

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; NMDA; PROPERTY; SENSORY NEURONS; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES; SPINAL-CORD; SWIMMING; TADPOLE MODEL; TYPE-SPECIFICITY;

NEURONS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; INTERNEURON; MODEL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWIMMING; TADPOLE;

EID: 34548787422     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-0019-1     Document Type: Article

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