Movement-related receptive fields of spinal motoneurones with active dendrites

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1581-1593

  Hyngstrom, Allison ^a   Johnson, Michael ^a   Schuster, Jenna ^a   Heckman, C J ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; DENDRITE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; JOINT FUNCTION; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOVEMENT RELATED RECEPTIVE FIELD; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PERSISTENT INWARD CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; ANKLE; EXCITABILITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; KNEE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; DENDRITES; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEEDBACK; HINDLIMB; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 40949097674     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.149146     Document Type: Article

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