Action-based body maps in the spinal cord emerge from a transitory floating organization

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5494-5503

  Granmo, Marcus ^a   Petersson, Per ^a   Schouenborg, Jens ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity dependent; Development; Learning; Sensorimotor; Somatosensory; Structural plasticity

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; DIZOCILPINE; ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATE COPOLYMER; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA TOXIN, B SUBUNIT HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; CHOLERA TOXIN, B SUBUNIT-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STEREOTYPY; ADAPTATION; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; VIBRATION; WISTAR RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAPSAICIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 45849128330     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0651-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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