Metamorphosis-induced changes in the coupling of spinal thoraco-lumbar motor outputs during swimming in Xenopus laevis

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1372-1383

  Beyeler, Anna ^a   Métais, Charles ^a   Combes, Denis ^a   Simmers, John ^a   Le Ray, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HINDLIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SWIMMING; TADPOLE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HINDLIMB; LARVA; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 57349116046     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00023.2008     Document Type: Article

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