Premotor interneurones contributing to actions of feline pyramidal tract neurones on ipsilateral hindlimb motoneurones

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 557-574

  Stecina, K ^a   Jankowska, Ezbieta ^a   Cabaj, A ^a   Pettersson, L G ^a   Bannatyne, B A ^b   Maxwell, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REFLEX; STIMULATION; ANIMAL CELL; CAT BREED; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITATORY PREMOTOR INTERNEURON; FACILITATION; GLUTAMATERGIC NEURON; GLYCINERGIC NEURON; HINDLIMB MUSCLE; INHIBITORY PREMOTOR INTERNEURON; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HINDLIMB; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 38149100360     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.145466     Document Type: Article

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