Neuronal substrates for state-dependent changes in coordination between motoneuron pools during fictive locomotion in the lamprey spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 868-879

  Mentel, Tim ^a   Cangiano, Lorenzo ^b,c   Grillner, Sten ^b   Büschges, Ansgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central pattern generation; Fin motoneuron; Intersegmental coordination; Intrasegmental coordination; Motor pattern generation; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATION; FIN WHALE; INTERNEURON; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MYOTOME; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LAMPREYS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING;

EID: 38549116013     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4250-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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