Functional diversity of motoneuron dendrites: By accident or design?

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 145, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 175-191

  Rose, P K ^a,b   Cushing, S ^a   Grande, G ^a   Bui, T ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CATS; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 36249026162     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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