Propagation of sinusoidal electrical waves along the spinal cord during a fictive motor task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 798-810

  Cuellar, Carlos A ^a   Tapia, Jesus A ^a   Juárez, Victoria ^a   Quevedo, Jorge ^b   Linares, Pablo ^a   Martínez, Lourdes ^a   Manjarrez, Elias ^a  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dorsal horn neurons; Scratch reflex; Scratching; Slow oscillations; Spinal cord; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURON; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; SCRATCHING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INTERNEURONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIODICITY; SKIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 58849100067     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3408-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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