Using a model to assess the role of the spatiotemporal pattern of inhibitory input and intrasegmental electrical coupling in the intersegmental and side-to-side coordination of motor neurons by the leech heartbeat central pattern generator

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1354-1371

  García, Paul S ^a   Wright, Terrence M ^a   Cunningham, Ian R ^a   Calabrese, Ronald L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART BEAT; HEART INNERVATION; HEART NERVE; LEECH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; INTERNEURONS; LEECHES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 57349181249     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90579.2008     Document Type: Article

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