Spinal interneuronal networks in the cat: Elementary components

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-55

  Jankowska, Elzbieta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Commissural neuron; Interneuron; Networks; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INTERACTION; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REFLEX; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE; SYNAPSE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; CATS; INTERNEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 36749026563     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2007.06.022     Document Type: Review

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