Genetic Ablation of V2a Ipsilateral Interneurons Disrupts Left-Right Locomotor Coordination in Mammalian Spinal Cord

Neuron

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-83

  Crone, Steven A ^a   Quinlan, Katharina A ^b   Zagoraiou, Laskaro ^c   Droho, Steven ^a   Restrepo, Carlos Ernesto ^b   Lundfald, Line ^b   Endo, Toshiaki ^b   Setlak, Jennifer ^a   Jessell, Thomas M ^c   Kiehn, Ole ^b   Sharma, Kamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; DEVBIO; MOLNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COORDINATION; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE DELETION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 53049089487     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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