Electrically evoked locomotor activity in the turtle spinal cord hemi-enlargement preparation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 441, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-109

  Samara, Ramsey F ^a   Currie, Scott N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Hindlimb enlargement; Locomotion; Spinal cord; Turtle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HINDLIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TURTLES;

EID: 46149124991     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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