Altered gravity highlights central pattern generator mechanisms

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2819-2824

  White, Olivier ^a   Bleyenheuft, Yannick ^a   Ronsse, Renaud ^b   Smith, Allan M ^c   Thonnard, Jean Louis ^a   Lefèvre, Philippe ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d Catholic University of Louvain   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SIMULATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY, ALTERED; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PERIODICITY;

EID: 57049136603     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90436.2008     Document Type: Article

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