Ipsilateral actions of feline corticospinal tract neurons on limb motoneurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 36, 2004, Pages 7804-7813

  Edgley, S A ^b   Jankowska, E ^a   Hammar, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cat; Commissural interneurons; Motor system; Pyramidal tract; Reticular formation; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CAT; COMMISSURAL INTERNEURON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HEMIPARESIS; HINDLIMB; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; LIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; PYRAMIDAL TRACT INJURY; RETICULAR FORMATION; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; CATS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HINDLIMB; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 4544230000     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1941-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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